Overview
Choose a World or an Exploration – an outline of a positive fictional fashion culture or system, or a prototype from such a world – to use as a starting point.
Consider life in the fictional world and identify everyday fashion practices and/or events that take place there. The practices/events may be present in the original World/Exploration or may emerge from your thinking as you interpret and discuss the fictional world. Feel free to take the fiction in an unexpected direction to create an engaging vision.
Generate ideas for possible ways that you could enact the practices/events in the real world. Enactments could take many forms, such as a one-day live event or a commitment to perform the world’s practices one day per week for a period of time.
Select the idea that will offer the most immersive and compelling experience of an alternative fashion culture or system. Write a short fiction to guide your enactment, focusing on the practice/event that you will bring to life.
Plan carefully how you will organise and coordinate your Enactment. If you would like to submit an Enactment Report, read our guidance on sharing images as part of your planning.
Brief participants fully on the fictional fashion culture/system they will be bringing to life.
Conduct your Enactment, aiming for a playful and informal ethos.
Reflect on the Enactment using the wonder-capture activity.
Share your Enactment with us!
Thank you!
Feedback on this guide is welcome: please email Amy
Want another go? Feel free – you are very welcome to create as many Enactments as you like!
Want to share or adapt this guide?
This guide is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows you to share and adapt it in any medium and for any purpose, providing that you credit the author (Amy Twigger Holroyd / Fashion Fictions) and apply the same Creative Commons licence to whatever you create.
If you’d like to adapt the guide for a non-fashion focus, please visit the Adapting Fashion Fictions page.