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Unravelling Fashion Narratives

Call for Submissions are CLOSED

Hello, friends of Fashion Studies!

After an incredible series of panels at the Unravelling Fashion Narratives symposium, we are excited to share that we will continue to unravel fashion narratives by publishing a special issue based on our conference.

The symposium featured a wide range of panelists investigating fashion from various angles. This event was hosted by the Fashion Studies Network, a community dedicated to sharing innovative fashion research and practices, led collaboratively by students and faculty from Parsons’ School of Fashion - The New School and Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Fashion. The Network’s conference provided a platform for affiliated students to share their work among leading scholars in the field.

To celebrate the Unravelling Fashion Narratives symposium’s success, Fashion Studies is thrilled to announce that our special issue is scheduled for publication in Summer 2025. 

We invite all student panelists from the Unravelling Student Narratives symposium to submit their presented work for publication. We ask that completed papers and/or creative works you have prepared adhere to the following guidelines and be submitted to us by email no later than September 30th, 2024. For more information, please see our Open Calls or click the button below.

Call for Student Editorial Board Members is CLOSED

Dear friends of Fashion Studies, 

Alongside the announcement of our special issue, Unravelling Fashion Narratives, we are thrilled to share more information regarding our upcoming student editorial board dedicated to this issue. 

To honor this project’s ‘student-led’ mission, we are convening a volunteer student editorial board to act as peer reviewers for submissions to the Unravelling Fashion Narratives special issue, within the approximate timeline of October 15, 2024 to June 15, 2025. 

Fashion Studies is accepting applications from graduate students or individuals who graduated within the last three years. Students who have submitted their work for publication may also apply to serve on the board, with the Fashion Studies team working to ensure ethics and anonymity throughout the editorial process. The deadline to apply for the student editorial board is September 30, 2024. 

For more information regarding responsibilities, qualifications, and benefits, please see our Open Calls or click the button below.

 
 

Table of Contents

Volume 1

Issue 1

1.
Post No Bill: The Transience of New York City Street Style by Brent Luvaas

2.
Ogling, Quizzing, and Spying: The Eyeglass by Susan Vincent

3.
Making Research: An Analysis of Arts-Based Practices in the Academic Process, A Case Study of Methods of Inscription by Ketzia Sherman

4.
Enclothed Knowledge: The Fashion Show as a Method of Dissemination in Arts-Informed Research by Ben Barry

5.
Flourishing Fashion: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of the Experience of Wearing a Happy Outfit by Rebecca Smith and Julia Yates

6.
The Several Lives of a Collection of Rag Dump Clothing from Normandy (1900–55): From Farm, to Dump, to Poverty Chic by Lou Taylor

7.
Body Doubles: The Origins of the Fashion Mannequin by Alison Matthews David

8.
Figurative Mobility: Veiling, Orientalism, and Unknowing Women in US Vogue, 1917–25 by Ilya Parkins

9.
Fashion/Photo/Film: The Intertextual Discourse of Funny Face (1956) by Paul Jobling

10.
Behind the Scenes with Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Toni Frissell: Alternative Views of Fashion Photography in Mid-Century America by Rebecca Arnold

11.
Let My Hair Be Me: An Investigation of Employee Authenticity and Organizational Appearance Policies Through the Lens of Black Women’s Hair by Tina Opie

12.
Re-Dressing Race and Gender: The Performance and Politics of Eldridge Cleaver’s Pants by Art Blake

13.
An Interview with The Fashion Studies Journal by Jaclyn Marcus

14.
A Fashion Exhibit Without Fashion by Jennifer Ayres

Issue 2

1.
Status, Votive Luxury, and Labour: The Female Rapper’s Delight by Nigel Lezama

2.
Review: Diversity NOW! Fashion & Race with Kimberly Jenkins by Jaclyn Marcus

3.
Contemporizing Modesty by Romana B. Mirza

4.
Clothing Fit Issues for Trans People by Andrew Reilly, Jory M. Catalpa, and Jenifer K. McGuire

Volume 2

Issue 1

1.
Hurricane Katrina Hair: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Commemorative Hair Forms and Fragments Through the “Mourning Portraits” of Loren Schwerd by Esther Berry

2.
Entanglements of a Dress Named Laverne: Threads of Meaning between Humans and Things (and Things) by Jessica Kennedy and Megan Strickfaden

3.
Rethinking Children and Clothes by Cecelia Gomes

4.
Custom Clothing Technology: Diffusion of Luxury Practices in Fashion by Nicholas Paganelli

5.
Alien Beauty: Posthuman Re-Imaginings by Presley Mills

6.
Hyper-Consumerism and Abstract Landscape in Asia by Marie Geneviève Cyr and Joseph Jagos

7.
Selly Raby Kane: Surrealist Designer and Social Innovator by Enrica Picarelli

8.
The Phantasmagoric World of Thierry Mugler by Julia Skelly

9.
Opulent Servitude: Shoplifting in a Culture of Material Excess and Systemic Racism by Evangeline Holtz Schramek and Carolyn Kane

10.
Sine Qua Non: An Exploration of a “Catholic Imagination” at the Met by Mark Joseph O’Connell

11.
(Un)Dress in Southworth & Hawes’ Daguerreotype Portraits: Clytie, Proserpine, and Antebellum Boston Women by Margo L. Beggs

12.
Fashion Film: The Grain of the Past in the Present Guest Lecture by Profession Caroline Evans

Issue 2

1.
Grief Becomes Her: Fashion Connections in Daemon & Saudade by Colleen Schindler-Lynch

2.
Exhibition Review: Gender Bending Fashion by Myriam Couturier

3.
An Interview With Petra Slinkard: Nancy B. Putnam Curator of Fashion and Textiles at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts by Marley Healy

4.
Review: Who’s In and Who’s Out of Fashion (Studies)? by Jaclyn Marcus

5.
Diversity Now! Sequins, Style & The End of Gender with Dr. Madison Moore by Rachel Rammal

Volume 3

Issue 1

1.
Body as Architecture: Designing the Stout Body in the Age of Standardization by Lauren Downing Peters

2.
From Venus to “Black Venus”: Beyoncé’s I Have Three Hearts, Fashion, and the Limits of Visual Culture by Cheryl Thompson

3.
Affect and Sensation by Ellen Sampson

4.
Missed Fit by Philip Sparks

5.
Indigenous Dress Theory and Dress in Canadian Residential Schools by Shawkay Ottmann

6.
Diagrammatic Manifestos: A Method for Studying the Fluidity of Gender in the Production of Fashion Photography by Floriane Misslin

7.
#NaturalDye by Kelsie Doty, Denise Nicole Green, and Dehanza Rogers

8.
You Aren’t What You Wear: An Exploration into Infinifat Identity Construction and Performance through Fashion by Calla Evans

9.
Fashioning the Academic and Private Self: The Clothing of Johanna Westerdijk in the Context of her Biography by Marta Kargól

10.
The Kurious Kase of Kim Kardashian’s Korset by Alanna McKnight

Issue 2

1.
Review: Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto 2020 by Nigel Lezama

2.
Review: Diversity Now! 2020 with Becca McCharen-Tran, CHROMAT by Ryan Chantree

3.
Marks of Obsession: Appearance, Transformation, Pain, and the Abject Female Body by Anna Pollice

4.
Review: Diversity Now! 2021 with Nigel “Legin” John, Legin Knits by Bianca Zanotti

5.
Clothing, Colonial Subjugation, and the Performance of Political Authority in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe by Mitchell Gauvin

6.
Entangled Fashion: A Psychosocial Contribution to Fashion Ethics in Times of Crisis by Ana Minozzo