黑料正能量

Fashion Talks at 黑料正能量 2021/22:听Between Consumption, Criticism and Activism.

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About the talk:

Starting in the late 19th听century, newspapers typically relegated fashion coverage to the so-called 鈥渨omen鈥檚 pages,鈥� alongside the other 鈥淔our F鈥檚,鈥� which included food, family, and furnishings, all topics that were dismissed as the epitome of soft news. In part because of its gender specificity, fashion criticism has not been taken as seriously as other fields of cultural criticism and dismissed as frivolous. This is in spite of the fact that fashion criticism not only has historically helped define fashion ideals, but in the process, occupied a central role in negotiating shifting gender roles but also shifting understandings of race. It has both chronicled and, especially in the last two decades, helped open up norms of beauty and fashionability. Focusing on fashion criticism produced in the English language from the late 19th听century鈥攁 period in which the fashion press proliferated to the present鈥攖he talk will discuss fashion criticism 鈥渋nterwoven discourses鈥� from gender to electoral politics.

Francesca鈥檚 talk is part of听this year's听Fashion Talks at 黑料正能量听entitled:听Between Consumption, Criticism and Activism听鈥� organized by Professor听Renate Stauss听and Professor听Sophie Kurkdjian听(Fashion Studies,听Department of Communication, Media and Culture).

Link to this talk will be sent to registrants just prior to the start of the event. For information on how to attend this event after registration has closed, please email rstaussaup.edu.