Staging a Situationist Fashion Revolution

Fashion loves an audience and, from the cameraphone snaps of the front row to the changing room selfies of Instagram, technology has only enhanced its performance. ‘Appearing to have’ – as the French philosophical movement the Situationists would call it – has always been the industry’s currency but, in recent years, an entire economy has developed around it. Fashion might initially seem at odds, then, with the core principles of the sixties intellectual movement (and its…