Guest Salons: #12: PS Magasin – A Post Scriptum of the Era of Independent Fashion Journals?
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 – 17:00–Tuesday, January 7, 2025 – 19:00
We’re excited to welcome Astrid Skjerven, Professor Emerita of Design Theory at Oslo Metropolitan University to her Guest Salon "PS Magasin – A Post Scriptum of the Era of Independent Fashion Journals?". As a professor, Skjerven's special fields of interest are everyday aesthetics, the relation between culture and sustainability, and Nordic design in a global perspective.
During the early 2000s a small number of independent, individually initiated fashion journals emerged in Norway. One of them was PS Magasin, which existed between 2014 and 2017. The aim was to present a qualitative take on fashion, both as regards form and content. It contained interviews, clothes and other products exquisitely styled in photographs taken by renowned photographers, and with relatively long texts. What impact did the journal have, if any? And what can we learn from the initiative on the current situation of fashion mediation? Tuesday, 4th of February from 18.00-20.00. Free coffee & notebooks. Welcome!
This is the 12th edition of Guest Salons; an active meeting point for free conversations around and beyond fashion, once a month at International Library of Fashion Research.
