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Vestoj: The Journal of Sartorial Matters provides a critical take on the fashion world and the way we dress ourselves. With an eminent advisory board and a thoughtfully assembled c ast of contributors for every issue, you can guarantee nuanced and informed consideration of fashion's relationship with art, culture, business, society, gender and more. If it sounds academic don’t be put off because Vestoj is wholly accessible and thought-provoking for anyone interested in fashion. Issues are always themed and No 11 is ‘On Everyday Life'’, being an exploration of routines, rituals and repetitions, the many ingenious ways in which the weak make use of the strong, how ‘common people’ reappropriate and subvert material culture to suit their own interests and rules, and a lyrical and critical exploration of generic, inexpensive and mass produced objects. It looks at the practice and poetics of the everyday, consumption as a creative act, and consumers not as passive receptacles, but rather active agents with the ability to adapt the system imposed on them in a myriad of small, personal and intuitive ways in order to navigate and enjoy life. Show more