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Viscose 07 examines scent through a variety of lenses, observing its historical and contemporary role in fashion culture. The issue seeks out scent histories—developed with or by artists and designers—who have embraced and involved smell as a medium of possibility and knowledge production, gesturing to histories of manufacturing, trade, branding, and commerce, but also sexuality, desire, identity, and memory.

Published in partnership with the International Library of Fashion Research and The Korean Pavilion at the 60th Venice Art Biennale, and the presentation "Odorama Cities" by Koo Jeong A.

Issue Co-Editors: Laura Gardner and Jeppe Ugelvig
Associate Editor: Thomas Patier
Creative Director: Filip Samuel Berg
Art Director: Laura Silke
Fashion Director: Juju Hsiung
Editorial assistants: Osadolor Osawemwenze, Marley Wendt, Aurora Gerini and Anna Clara Westerskov

2024
English
237 pages
17x24cm, Softcover
ISBN 978-87-974802-0-5
€ 28

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The sixth issue of Viscose Journal focuses on fashion as constructed through words, language and writing. From the pens of fashion journalists and art critics to the conceptual wordplay of designers, the issue delves into the aesthetic and critical effects of "writing fashion” in and outside of fashion industries.

Published in collaboration with International Library of Fashion Research

Issue Co-Editors: Laura Gardner and Jeppe Ugelvig
Associate Editor: Thomas Patier
Creative Director: Filip Samuel Berg
Art Director: Laura Silke
Fashion Director: Juju Hsiung
Editorial assistants: Osadolor Osawemwenze, Marley Wendt, Aurora Gerini and Anna Clara Westerskov

2024
English
237 pages
17x24cm, Softcover
ISBN 978-87-974802-0-5
€ 28

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The fifth issue of Viscose Journal explores fashion’s multifaceted retail spaces and cultures. With the evolution of shopping in the 20th and 21st centuries as its focus, the issue looks at the shop as a central nexus where communities and identities are continuously produced and re-imagined through commerce. With a special attention to the role of fashion retail within urban spatial politics, we seek out histories of projects—often developed with or by artists—that have embraced the shop as a medium of both possibility and contestation.

The magazine design evokes the ephemeral shop receipt that will similarly curl and materially register its reader as it’s used. The receipt is an official proof of a commodity’s acquisition and value, an artefact of a kind of in-person consumption that is often evoked as rapidly heading to extinction. Viscose’s 5th issue invites readers to use their item until breaking point.

Published in partnership with Storefront for Art and Architecture and International Library of Fashion Research. With the generous support of Between Bridges, Berlin.

Issue Co-Editors: Camila Palomino & Jeppe Ugelvig
Assistant Editor: Cheuk Ng
Creative Director: Filip Samuel Berg
Art Director: Laura Silke
Fashion Director: Juje Hsiung
Interns: Aurora Gerini & Marley Wendt

2023
English
211 pages
160x260mm, Softcover
ISBN 978-87-974802-0-5 ISSN 2597-257X
€ 27

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This special issue of Viscose critically explores the numerous relationships between transness and fashion. The issue sets out to ask two ambivalent questions: what is a fashion theory of transness, and what might a trans theory of fashion be? Viscose 04 productively confronts fashion studies with trans aesthetics and trans studies, and attempts to excavate the largely invisible archives of trans history that form the underside of fashion itself.

The issue features a wealth of archival and contemporary moments of trans fashion production spanning 50 years. The cover celebrates histories of independent queer publishing, and doubles as a detachable poster.

Co-published in collaboration with Leslie Lohman Museum, New York

Issue Co-Editors: Alex Esculapio, Che Gossett, and Jeppe Ugelvig
Issue Guest Designer: Rissa Hochberger
Assistant Editor: Cheuk Ng
Creative Director: Filip Samuel Berg
Art Director: Laura Silke

2023
English
172 pages
330x245mm, Softcover
ISBN 9788867496181
€ 27

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This special third issue, co-edited with London-based writer and director Cheuk NG, and designed by Shanghai-based echocatcher, sets out to deconstruct the notion of “Asias” through fashion. With an emphasis on the term’s plural possibilities, the issue seeks out stories deep within fashion’s global supply chain, and reflects on the porous communities of fashion producers and consumers around the world that may self-identify as “Asian.”

Focusing on the regions bordering the South China Sea, with contributors from over 10 countries as well as their global diasporas, the issue contests the idea of Asia as a singular idea, image, and even place, instead engendering an array of “Asias” that are employed symbolically, economically, socially, and politically across fashion’s frenzied systems.

Founding Editor-in-Chief: Jeppe Ugelvig
Issue Co-Editor: Cheuk Ng
Editorial Assistant: Cheuk Ng
Creative Director: Filip Samuel Berg
Art Director: Laura Silke
Co-published in collaboration with X Museum, Beijing

2022
English
268 pages
Softcover, 18 × 37 cm
ISBN 9788867496181
€ 25

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Issue 2 inverts issue 1’s focus on the immaterial notion of style to instead explore the most material of fashion’s building blocks: clothes Clothes are literally everywhere and cite complicated systems of production, distribution, and exchange on their paths around the world. Still, they never fully reveal their journey or destination, and may often signify little else than their own commodity status, the total genericness of the fashion product. Bringing together a wide range of artists, thinkers, and writers, the issue sets out to explore clothes as a signifier at once empty and over-burdened: as expressions of desires, people and places, as palimpsests for capitalist production cycles and histories of dressed bodies, and even, as nondescript material debris.

Founding Editor-in-Chief: Jeppe Ugelvig
Editorial Assistant: Cheuk Ng
Creative Director: Filip Samuel Berg
Art Director: Laura Silke
Co-published in collaboration with HFKD, Denmark

2021
English
176 pages
Softcover, 17 × 21 cm
ISBN 9788867496181
€ 25

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The very first issue of Viscose tackles the expansive notion of “style.” Both a noun and a verb, style can be understood as the most basic unit or currency of fashion. Style names the very movement of aesthetics in society, and thus holds an important place in the critique of art and visual culture more broadly.

As a verb, it connotes a tactic: a dynamic tool for persuasion and communication through the bricolage of signifiers. It also relates directly to the contemporary profession of “styling;” a practice native to the fashion industry, but increasingly prevalent across the arts, media, consumerism, and politics. This issue of Viscose sets out to critically gesture to all of these connotations and their potential intermingling through concrete case studies and cross disciplinary philosophical speculation.

Founding Editor-in-Chief: Jeppe Ugelvig
Creative Director: Filip Samuel Berg
Art Director: Laura Silke

2021
English
151 pages
Softcover, 28 × 29,7 cm
ISBN 9788867496181
€ 25