Fashion Talks at AUP opens up a critical space for fashion studies, a space exploring current professional, political and personal practices of fashion. Fashion Talks at AUP invites fashion scholars, activists, and members of the professional field of and around fashion, showcasing different disciplines and perspectives — both complimentary and contradictory. Fashion Talks at AUP aims to create a space for new ideas and critical conversations, a space between.
Fashion Talks at AUP is organized by Professor Renate Stauss and Professor Sophie Kurkdjian. (Fashion Studies, Department of Communication, Media and Culture) as hybrid events with annual themes.
Explores our roles in relation to fashion. While the industry often relegates us to passive consumers, all of us engage in the creative act of fashioning ourselves every day. Recently fashion has become a site for activism – from calling into question industry standards to dressing dissent. How can we negotiate the contradictory roles we hold – between consumers, critics, creatives and activists? How can we move from passive to active engagements with fashion?
On the cognitive dissonance of what we know and value and how we live and act in this world.
100 Fashion and Textile Terms in Khmer, English and French
Omid & Gisel Kordestani Rooftop Conference Center (Q-801)