ARCHIVING AND LEGACY MANAGEMENT
Fashion and Textile Legacy Archives
Fashion and textile legacy archives enshrine a body of work and unique aesthetic values, vision and craft of a community, artisan, designer or brand. These archives celebrate the philosophy and creativity behind the garment or fabric and the influences and innovations within the community or the industry at large.
Carefully curated, an archived fashion legacy serves as an inspirational resource and a referential library for upcoming designers and allows a fashion house or a brand to retain the essence of their design ideology even as they evolve. It becomes a roadmap of the evolution of a designer’s and a brand’s aesthetic and craft over a period of time.
A fashion brand’s legacy, when showcased in a museum format, allows consumers, and the world at large, to engage more deeply with a brand’s, or the founder designer’s, history and appreciate its finer nuances.
Archives for iconic labels are often leveraged for use in other formats such as exhibitions, publications, documentaries etc. Whether in the form of a museum or as a book, such legacy archives immortalise a designer or brand and establish it as an influential and significant player in the industry.
On the other hand, textile archives are a careful and meticulous documentation of the technique, technology, materials, and lifestyles of artisans and they present an opportunity to preserve these traditional methodologies that are often orally passed from one generation to another.
Lacking documentation, Indigenous methods might otherwise become lost in collective memory and practice. Textile archives are instrumental in questioning consumerist trends and to humanise what is often taken for granted.
At Eka, we assess, document, and create comprehensive archives of a fashion legacy and textile history by employing deep research, documentation, material conservation design and technology. Organised in suitable formats that are appropriate to our clients’ requirements, the systems of archives we create are foundational to a brand, preserving its past collections while also guiding its future.
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