Fitting Room: The Self and the Social World of Fashion

This is "Fitting Room: <Me> and the Social World of Fashion" (2023) by CYCLAS founder Keiko Onoe.

The living breath of the people who create fashion.

Responsiveness, joy, trust, hope. Or discomfort, indignation, anger, despair. In the 30 years since I stepped into the social world of fashion until I left the company I founded, what did I seek in fashion and what did I try to create? What possibilities for "another creation" emerge from this? This is an autoethnography that depicts in detail the conflicts and challenges to the system that dominates fashion, and opens up personal experiences to the world through 43 scenes (the scenes).

Not an essay, but an autoethnography... "A method of self-research that has been gaining attention in sociology and anthropology in recent years. One's own experiences are retraced and described within a cultural and social context. The style of expression varies, and often takes the form of a story." This is a book that could only be written by an author who has continued to engage with fashion as a woman and is involved in social and anthropological research into fashion (Ammel).