ATOPOS cvc participates in Fashion Research Symposium 2025 an ongoing collaboration between the National Museum of Norway and International Library of Fashion Research. The theme for 2025 is “Creating Afterlives”.

This year’s edition extends on the themes and dynamics unveiled by the exhibition project “Ephemeral Matters. Into the Fashion Archive”, based on Marco Pecorari’s seminal book “Fashion Remains – Rethinking Ephemera in the Archive” and curated by Marco Pecorari and Hanne Eide at the National Museum of Norway. Coinciding with the finissage of this exhibition, Fashion Research Symposium 2025 gathers Norwegian and international researchers, collectors and practitioners to explore ephemeral afterlives through alternative and critical archival practices in fashion.

Vasillis Zidianakis & Steffi Stouri will present a talk entitled ”The Affective Archive: Issey Miyake, Materiality, and Memory-Making” (12.40 UTC+01:00)

The presentation examines the intersection of Miyake’s innovative practices with the notion of an affective archive, a dynamic space where memory, materiality, and embodied experience converge. Drawing from the affective archives program, we explore how objects—such as Miyake’s pleated paper garments—are sites of re-enactment, where memories are continually re-mobilized, reshaped, and embodied by those who encounter them.

Please press here for the full programme and here to get your tickets.