Frederik Larsen is conducting the PhD Project entitled Value Creation in Second Hand Clothing Markets.

The purpose of the project is to understand how value is created in second hand clothing markets, in order to facilitate a rethinking about value creation in the cultural economy of fashion. The project explores a growing market that is driven by fashion interest, search for sustainability and economic constraints, and challenges the tendency to exclude second hand clothes from the fashion industry. By contributing to a deepened understanding of the aspects of fashion not directly involved in production, the project will create new knowledge of alternative business practices valuable in the change towards greater sustainability in the fashion industry. The project focuses on the collecting, sorting and reselling of second hand clothes carried out by charitable organizations in an interdisciplinary framework.

Frederik Larsen is also managing editor of the Journal of Business Anthropology
www.cbs.dk/jba

 

Skov, Lise, Larsen, Frederik, Netter, Sarah 2011. Kommissionsgenbrug: imellem nyt og gammelt. Working Paper, Creative Encounters Research Programme.

Csaba, Fabian F., Larsen, Frederik 2010. The Role of Fairs in the Development and Division of Fields, Paper presented at the conference ‘Creativity from a Global Perspective’ Fudan University, Shanghai.

Larsen, Frederik 2009. Materialitetens Betydning –Om påklædning som en situeret kropslig praksis, Master Thesis, University of Copenhagen.

Skov, Lise, Skjold, Else, Moeran, Brian, Larsen, Frederik, Csaba, Fabian F. 2009. The Fashion Show as an Art Form, Working Paper, Creative Encounters Research Programme.

Larsen, Frederik 2008. ’Afkald og påklædning, den maskuline uniform, eller hvorfor herretøj har brug for sin historie’, in Personae -Tidskrift for klær, kropp og kultur, Oslo: Transit.