Reaching for the Sun, Moon and Stars: Experiencing Fashion Retail in the Neighbourhood in Hong Kong

Abstract

The relationship between fashion and the city is founded on symbiotic assumptions representing and symbolising modernity in constructing and exploring urban identity. Manifestations of this situation are apparent in the way that fashion is played out globally in city spaces and places through an endless cycle of creation, dissolution and recreation of experiential retail space in new forms of urbanism. This dynamic process also operates on micro and macro levels, as clothing envelops the body in its material layering in the same way that urban buildings contain bodies within their frame. Both fashion and architectural spaces