Выставка-исследование «Мода, которой нет» как способ работы с архивами моды Южного Урала

Обсерватория культуры. 2026. Т. 23. № 2. С. 156–163.

Ermakovishna E.

The research exhibition Fashion That Doesn’t Exists (Chelyabinsk, 2024) explores the transformations of the Southern Ural fashion industry over the past 30 years. Initiated by the self-organized LongFashionWeekend team, the project aims to reconstruct local fashion history through archival research. Given the lack of systematic documentation of the region’s fashion scene, the exhibition becomes a tool for understanding regional identity, demonstrating how fashion in the Southern Ural region evolved from the Soviet light industry through the crisis of the 1990s to the emergence of independent brands in the 2010s and 2020s. As part of the research, an exhibition was held that combined four time periods (1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s), revealing key phenomena in each period through the prism of design, media, events, and infrastructure. The project placed particular emphasis on an educational program and interactive practices that engage viewers in a dialogue with the past as a means of gathering additional information.
The research revealed the lack of archives and the need to create a permanent exhibition. The project demonstrates
that regional fashion is not a marginal phenomenon, but a signifi cant part of cultural heritage, requiring academic
understanding as a form of collective memory and a tool for rethinking the industrial heritage of the Southern Urals.

Keywords: дизайн, локальная идентичность, local identity, архивные исследования, Archival research, Southern Ural fashion, LongFashionWeekend, design, research exhibition, мода Южного Урала, LongFashionWeekend, выставка-исследование