Vestoj

Vestoj is a forum where academia, the museum world and the fashion industry can work together and with active communication. We write about the cultural phenomenon that is fashion in a manner that opens up for dialogue between theory and practice in order to raise awareness for fashion as a cultural phenomena and field of research and cultivate an even greater understanding for the discipline. Vestoj will exist outside of seasonally-based trends and news-focused articles. Instead we aim to encourage and champion the critical and independent voice within fashion as well as absolute creative freedom. In order to ensure that we remain free in thought and action Vestoj will have no advertising. Published bi-annually, 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.

Editorial Team:

Anja Aronowsky Cronberg; Editor-in-Chief and Publisher

Anja gained her BA in Fine Art knitting and embroidering at Central Saint Martin’s and her MA, with distinction, in History of Design, at the Royal College of Art where she became an expert at the vintage phenomenon. Shortly afterwards Anja began working as the editor of Acne Paper in Stockholm, where she worked until she decided to set up Vestoj, the journal of clothes and culture.

Contact: anja@vestoj.com

Agnes af Geijerstam, Editor

Agnes was awarded her BA in journalism and philosophy at Stockholm University. Following her studies she worked as editor and fashion director of Rodeo magazine in Stockholm. Agnes also took part in the creation of Litkes, “the literary fashion magazine”, and today works as an editor at CITY, with fashion as her main area of expertise.

Contact: agnes@vestoj.com

Johanna Jonsson, Acting Art Director

Johanna studied visual communication at Denmark’s Design school, after which she established herself as an art director and graphic designer in Stockholm with clients such as D – La Republica delle Donne, Spoon Publishing, The Deportees and Silikon. Johanna was one of the founding members at Litkes, and the one who gave the magazine its graphic profile. Today Johanna works as art director at DV Mode and Vi.

Contact: johanna@vestoj.com

Hanne Lindberg/Bergen, Deputy Art Director

Hanne completed her BA in graphic design at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm and has since, under the alias Bergen, worked with a plethora of artists, architects, musicians and book publishers, designing books, magazines, posters, record sleeves or whatever else her clients are in need of.  She is also a keen DJ and music producer.

Contact: hanne@vestoj.com

Vestoj Editorial Advisory Board

Professor Caroline Evans, Reader in Fashion History and Theory, Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London

Professor Christopher Breward, Head of Research, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Olivier Saillard, Director of Programming, Musée de la Mode et du Textile, Paris

Dr Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator, Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York

Professor Peter McNeil, Professor, Centre for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University, Stockholm

Louise Wallenberg, Director and Assistant Professor, Centre for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University, Stockholm

Professor Elizabeth Wilson, Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, London

Neville Wakefield, Curator of Frieze Project and Writer on Contemporary Culture, New York

Sarah Mower, Fashion Journalist, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, style.com, London

Hamish Bowles, European Editor-at-Large US Vogue, New York

Ingrid Giertz-Martenson, CEO Swedish Vision, Stockholm