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This article focuses on current strategies for critical fashion practices in an expanded field of fashion. In the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century, the field of fashion studies has increasingly scrutinized the relationship between fine art and fashion within an art museum context. Drawing a parallel with Rosalind Krauss's notion of sculpture in the expanded field, this article documents the development of interdisciplinary fashion practices, suggesting that an expanded field allows fashion practitioners to engage in a critical discussion of the fashion system. As a fashion practitioner focusing on nonproductivist interdisciplinary techniques across multiple media (fashion and film, sculpture, installation, and performance), I test this notion by developing parallels between contemporary fashion and Krauss's 1979 diagnosis. This article argues for the relevance of establishing theories of interdisciplinary practice to better understand the contemporary field of fashion, challenging assumptions about fashion's role in the twenty-first century.

The aim of this chapter is to voice the concerns of fashion practitioners and researchers in the early twenty-first century, testing the boundaries of the discipline. Interdisciplinary and wide ranging, this ‘paper-as-installation’ addresses a gap in practice-based research, bridging practice and theory. The research methodology developed within the practice extends the potential of film, communicating between practice and theory, in order to explore the possibilities for knowing through expanded fashion practice, in a context of heightened concerns about climate change and environmental issues induced by mass-production, fast-fashion, and global fashion distribution and consumption. This challenges the understanding of fashion, not merely as accomplished garments, but also as the production of new philosophical and theoretical conditions in which the discipline can further adjust, evolve, question in socially and environmentally responsible ways, and deconstruct underlying assumptions to expose the limitations of current market-driven fashion design processes.