arachne: Almanac of the Fashion Department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

by Monica Titton (Editor)

ARACHNE is an almanac of clothing, fashion, lifestyle, popular culture, music and art in Vienna. It explores happenings in the city – including the work of the fashion design class at the University of Applied Arts – and beyond, offering a unique mix of fashion editorials, illustrations, essays, art, short stories, reviews and interviews. The publication owes its name to the ancient Greek myth of Arachne, a weaver so talented that she challenged Athena, the goddess of wisdom and crafts, to a weaving contest. Athena punished Arachne for her hubris by turning her into a spider.

204 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published June 17, 2019

About the author

Dr Monica Titton is a sociologist, fashion theorist and culture critic. She currently works as a Senior Scientist at Modeklasse, the Fashion Department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her work develops a critical, sociological perspective at the intersections of fashion, politics, art, and identity. Her research is guided by an effort to expand and develop theoretical frameworks for critical analyses of fashion, and is informed by the traditions of poststructuralism, Marxism, feminism and postcolonialism. She has written and published on collective narratives of self and identity in digital fashion media, on the interrelationship between contemporary art practices and fashion design, on the subversion and affirmation of gender stereotypes in postfeminist media culture, on the limits of criticism in fashion journalism, and on the convergence of feminism, fashion and radical protest.