Floriane Misslin

⤷ I’m a researcher, designer, and educator whose practice focuses on developing participatory and visual research methods. I’m a lecturer in art direction at London College of Communication and a PhD candidate in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London (UK).

My research studies the production of fashion photography and fashion practices that challenge the distinction between womenswear and menswear, with a focus on the use of mood boards. This continues my project ⟶ Diagramming Fluidity which was published as a book with Onomatopee, and a paper in the journal Fashion Studies. The project was exhibited in Designs for Different Futures (US) and Viral (FR). I also wrote for Futuress about fashion education.

I’m also a visiting tutor to the MA Geo-Design at Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) and to the studio Fashions & Embodiment of the MA Design: Expanded Practice at Goldsmiths (UK).

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Get in touch ⟶ fomisslin@gmail.com.
My pronouns are they/them/she. I'm based in London (UK).
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I studied at Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) (2016) and Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London (UK) (2019), where I'm now a part-time PhD student.

Amongst others, I have worked with MODUS, a platform for expanded fashion practice (UK/NL) ✱ Palais de Tokyo (FR) ✱ Le Signe, National Centre for Graphic Design in France ✱ queer intersectional feminist platform Futuress (CH/DE) ✱ Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museum of Architecture, Design and Digital Culture (NL) ✱ Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Walker Art Center (US) ✱ artist and researcher Femke de Vries (NL) ✱ Geo-Design at Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) ✱ Design: Expanded Practice at Goldsmiths University of London (UK) ✱ publishing house Onomatopee (NL) ✱ artist and professor Lucy Orta (UK/FR) ✱ Tent Gallery (NL) ✱ fashion journal Vestoj (FR)
This website is made by myself © Floriane Misslin, 2022

Uni–Sex : Analysing Unisex and Gender Fluid Fashion Campaigns

Archived in a book, over hundred diagrams explore the components of different visual languages and examine the various ways of portraying gender fluid and unisex fashion collections from 2015. The study unveils contradictions, limitations, and potentials to establish potential blueprints for gender fluid fashion. Further explorations of the project were presented as a performance in the exhibition #TVClerici in Milan Design Week (IT) and an installation at Tent Gallery, Rotterdam (NL) ⤿2016-2017

↘︎ Spreads from the analysis

↗︎ The analysis features the following campaigns:
Toogood Unisex Outerwear - Collection 001
Moses Gauntlett Cheng - Going back to Long Island, Going back to Jersey, Going back to Perth
Rad Hourani - Unisex #8
Gypsy Sport - Fall Winter 2015
Erik Yvon - Delta
Vaquera - Vaquera 03

↘︎ Publication of the essay

↗︎ Image from Toogood Unisex Outerwear - Collection 001

↘︎ Film stills from "Performative Clothing" documenting the performance commissioned for Milan Design Week 2017

Watch the film ☞here☜

↗ Directed by Floriane Misslin
Filmed by Keisuke Fujita
Soundscape by Jim Zweerts
Performed by Olle Lundin and Floriane Misslin
June 2017

↘︎ Film still

↘︎ Images from the performance at the exhibition #TVClerici.
The exhibition was set as a live TV studio in which design projects were made and performed between the backstage and onstage. Exhibition by Design Academy Eindhoven curated by Jan Boelen, at Milan Design Week, April 2017
Photographs by Angeline Swinkels

↘ Installation at Tent Gallery, Rotterdam (NL) from the 7th of September to the 29th of October 2017