Editorial foreword to the Special Issue on Arctic Fashion

• Published in: Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty
• Main Authors: Smelik, A.M., Kaiser, S.B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: COMPAS: Creativity; Object; Materiality; and Practice of Art in Society; Critical Humanities; Europe in a Changing World; Arctic; Faroe Islands; Canada; Greenland; Norway; Iceland; inuit; Alaska
• Online Access: https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/298252; https://doi.org/10.1386/csfb_00060_2

Contains fulltext : upload_in_progress_2066_298252.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) The Special Issue of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty on ‘Arctic Fashion’ shows that fashion is distributed and consumed on a global scale, including across remote regions and extreme climates such as the Arctic. The Arctic is a vast area comprising territories of Russia, the US state of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the northern reaches of Scandinavian nations like Norway, Sweden and Finland. Ten per cent of the population in the Arctic are Inuit, the term used to describe the Indigenous people of the Arctic. As the articles in this issue show, fashion provides a unique entry point to further understand the complexity of living in the Arctic, while being globally connected in a digital era. The wide range of the articles reflect the immense diversity of these remote regions in terms of historical, cultural, ethnic, and geographical realities and narratives. Working from postcolonial insights, the articles challenge prevailing Euro- and ethnocentric fashion perspectives. Delving deeply and in diverse ways into a neglected part of the world’s fashion systems, the special issue enhances the understanding of the embodiment and representation of fashion among diverse individuals and cultures across the Arctic. 3 p.