Phone:
(+45) 3527 7630
E-mail: mmk@dkds.dk
Attached with
Department of Research and Artistic Practice
Functions
Research
Supervision
Committees
Board of Research
Research Project
In my Ph.D. research project with the working title On the Move: How and Why Trends in Fashion Change, I aim to synthesize, exemplify and develop trend theory within the field of fashion. A mapping of the existing trend theory will attempt to unite the field while at the same time forming the basis for an exploration of a concrete case in the shape of vintage fashion. Here, vintage is understood as recycling of clothing - motivated by desire rather than need - from 1950 to 1980 in the period from 1990 to the present. The purpose of the case is to apply the trend theories to a concrete trend in order to challenge the potentials and limitations of these theories. The project is intended to make a contribution to trend theory by developing a new model that can provide a greater understanding of how and why trends in fashion change. In developing this model, I look to the theory of the rhizome as developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1987). The rhizome is a botanical term for a subterranean system of horizontal rootstalks found in such diverse plants as potato, fern and lily of the valley.
As a philosophical model, the rhizome can be described as a complex unity in a constant state of becoming. The rhizome opens for new perspectives in the understanding of trends that are defined exactly by being in perpetual transformation.
Short Resume
2006 - Ph.D. Scholar, Danmarks Designskole
2005 Research Assistant at MOKO under Center for Designforskning (CDF)
2004 - 2005 Maternity leave
2003-2004 Freelance writer with assignments in the written press, advertising, PR and publishing.
2002 Project manager and managing editor of the newspaper Dagen
2001 - 2002 Editor in chief of Magazine produced in collaboration with Y&R.
2001 M.A. from Copenhagen University with a dissertation entitled: Plica Ex Plica: Folds and other Baroque Operations in John Donne's Songs and Sonnets and Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. The dissertation explored the possibility of a Baroque literary tradition in England by employing the theory of the fold developed by Gilles Deleuze.
1999 Managing editor of Eurowoman Magazine.
1997 - 1999 Contributing editor to BOMB Magazine, New York, project manager for monography about the artist Janine Antoni (Cantz), studies with Rosalind Krauss at Columbia University, and freelance writer and critic for magazines, newspapers and DR, Danish Broadcasting Corporation.
1994 - 1995 Exchange student at Universiteit van Amsterdam
Selected Publications
Co-writer of MOKO: Potentialer i modeforskning (CDF), 2006.
Ferns in Fashion - On the Logic of Trends. Copenhagen Working Papers on Design, 2006
Ph.D.
