Issue 11: On Everyday Life
Vestoj ‘On Everyday Life’ is an exploration of routines, rituals and repetitions, the many ingenious ways in which the weak make use of the strong, how ‘common people’ reappropriate and subvert material culture to suit their own interests and rules, and a lyrical and critical exploration of generic, inexpensive and mass produced objects. We are looking at the practice and poetics of the everyday, consumption as a creative act, and consumers not as passive receptacles, but rather active agents with the ability to adapt the system imposed on them in a myriad of small, personal and intuitive ways in order to navigate and enjoy life.
TEXTS BY
Nick Schonberger, Christina Moon, Daniel Miller, Shamus Khan, Johannes Lenhard, Michelle Millar Fisher, Ann Rosalind Jones, Hazel Clark, Alla Eizenberg, Avery Trufelman, Tom Jeffreys, Eran Dorfman, Ruby Hoette, Ae-ran Kim, Maayan Goldman, Stig Dagerman
CREATIVE DIRECTION BY
Ohlman Consorti
Vestoj exists outside of seasonally-based trends and news-focused articles. Instead they aim to encourage and champion the critical and independent voice within fashion as well as absolute creative freedom. In order to remain unbiased Vestoj has no advertising. Vestoj focuses solely on sartorial matters, bringing together academia and industry in a bid to combine academic theory, critical thinking and a bit of good old fashioned glamour.