Divatarchívumok: Instagram és a digitális korszak
Fashion Archives: Instagram and the Digital Age

Summary/Abstract: Fashion archives are a vital segment of the fashions cape. Social media-based fashion archives, especially those on Instagram, have gained a significant foothold in the digital fashions cape. Due to their digital foundation, such social Media base collections conform to the broad, even figurative concept of archives proposed by philosopher Michel Foucault and historian Elizabeth Yale. Importantly, they do not compromise the need for physical fashion archives and make otherwise paywalled information readily accessible. Although there are notable benefits to Instagram-based fashion archives, there are also several drawbacks, such as data loss, the public’s conflation of term “fashion archive” with “archive fashion”, and even what fashion scholar Vicki Karaminas calls the “the hypotrophy of the image”. This paper seeks to not only introduce this segment of the fashions cape, but also place it within archive and fashion theory and history through an exploration of its merits and challenges.

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