No Fun @ Al: contributos para uma abordagem dos novos movimentos sociais, da slow fashion e do artivismo contemporâneo = No Fun @ AL: contributions to an approach of new social movements, slow fashion and contemporary activism

Abstract

Fashion, in the field of recent and contemporary academic studies, still remains as an incipient topic. Thus, our work is situated in this gap, in the sense that it intends to offer the reader a theoretical and historical view on punk fashion since the 1970s to the present time, being that at the present time the focus will be on the growing relevance of slow fashion. Indeed, this article intends to emphasize an approach that has as background an analysis that aims to interconnect fashion with an activist practice, in historical terms, in Portugal, as well as to account for the importance of the adoption of an ethos and a DIY praxis among young Portuguese punk. In parallel, it should be noted that this work is the result of a long field research that lasted between the years 2012 and 2017, in Portugal, in which had been carried out, 240 semi-structured interviews to key actors of the punk movement in Portugal. However, given the limitations imposed, we will only focus on a visual analysis, i.e., we will focus on the presentation of photographs by some of these key players and that, in our view, portray these changes in terms of fashion, activism and DIY in Portugal.