Please join us for a drink to celebrate a collaborative project between Dr Elizabeth Kutesko, Dal Choda & Caroline Stevenson.
"I think of the canon as a kind of dirty word"
During preparations ahead of the new term this summer, three academics of fashion began a conversation about their respective reading lists. Naturally, they ended up with a set of questions: what books have remained at the forefront of the discipline? Whose theories about the body, the psychology of dress, the spectrum of gender and the potential of clothes do we—and our students—scaffold contemporary ideas upon? What might the canon of fashion studies look like and, what even is ‘a canon’ anyway?
The result of this dialogue between Dr Elizabeth Kutesko who leads both the BA & MA Fashion Histories & Theories courses at Central Saint Martins, Editor and Writer Dal Chodha who heads up the Fashion Communication: Image & Promotion BA at Central Saint Martins and Caroline Stevenson, Programme Director of Cultural and Historical Studies at London College of Fashion was then captured in a single image.
A pile of books with their spines turned away from the lens is a starting point for an ongoing series of events and discussions surveying the genesis of fashion studies and its untold potentials.
A2 double sided poster printed on matte paper. Free.
Photograph by Jake Axler
Design by Brighten the Corners
Thank you to The Centre for Fashion Curation (CfFC), Viv Eades-Miller & Tim Arscott at Central Saint Martins library.