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Fashion Talks

Francesca Granata “Fashion Criticism: An Anthology”

This is an online event.
Thursday, December 9, 2021 - 18:30 to 19:45

Fashion Talks at AUP 2021/22: Between Consumption, Criticism and Activism.

 

About the talk:

Starting in the late 19th century, newspapers typically relegated fashion coverage to the so-called “women’s pages,” alongside the other “Four F’s,” 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 century—a period in which the fashion press proliferated to the present—the talk will discuss fashion criticism “interwoven discourses” from gender to electoral politics.

Francesca’s talk is part of this year's Fashion Talks at AUP entitled: Between Consumption, Criticism and Activism – organized by Professor Renate Stauss and Professor Sophie Kurkdjian (Fashion StudiesDepartment of Communication, Media and Culture).

About Francesca Granata:

Francesca Granata is Associate Professor of Fashion Studies in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design. Her research centers on modern and contemporary visual and material culture with a particular focus on fashion history and theory,gender and performance studies. Her monograph Experimental Fashion, Performance Art,Carnival and the Grotesque Body examines the way experimental fashion at the turn of the twenty-first century mediated shifting gender norms and the AIDS crisis. Her edited collection FashionCriticism: An Anthology was published by Bloomsbury in February 2021. She is the editor and founder of the journal Fashion Projects.

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 rstaussataup.edu.

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