The Journal of Wear is an anthology interested in the clothes we feel, think, play, work, and live in, examining how and why garments are incorporated into ordinary life.

First conceived as a series of digital articles with friend and collaborator Esther Koh in 2022, The Journal of Wear features narrative-style interviews that capture the wearer’s unique voice and story from their perspective with the writer’s.

By entering one’s wardrobe, an intimate and private space, readers are invited into real, lived human experiences of sartorial joy and troubles. These stories portray the banality of clothing oneself alongside the awe and spectacle that “ordinary” clothing contains and evokes, inviting readers to ruminate on the everyday clothing they encounter, seeing them as not just tools and objects of self-expression but means of greater storytelling.

In the first printed iteration, The Journal of Wear is introduced by Esther Koh and reflected upon by Wonne Scrayen. Nestled in between are three visual profiles of Leitu Bonnici, Giulia Coluccello, and Wonne Scrayen.

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Material: Paper / Dimensions: 108mm x 180mm / Number of pages: 64
 / Author: Xingyun Shen
 / Editors: Xingyun Shen / Contributors: Esther Koh, Leitu Bonicci, Giulia Coluccello, Wonne Scrayen / Graphic design: Kasper Quaink / Photography: Giulia Coluccello / Release date: 12-10-2024 / Binding: Single Section Stitch / Colour or black/white: Colour / Language: English / Paper: Natural Evolution 80gsm, Crush Cocoa 120gsm / Printing: Inkjet / Typefaces: Sono, Sono Sans, Capriola, Faktory, Authentic Sans, Literata / Made possible by: Personal Publishing / Made in: The Netherlands / Publisher: Clothes Press / Production costs per item: €5,55 / Production hours per item: 50 plus / Collaboration: yes