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Announcements / Annonces

Fashion Studies Network Symposium MAY 2026

E/Spaces in Fashion

We are pleased to announce the second Fashion Studies Network Symposium, hosted by the Masters of Fashion program at Toronto Metropolitan University. The symposium will take place on Thursday, May 28th and Friday, May 29th, 2026.

The field of fashion is composed of numerous spaces—physical and digital spaces; making, consuming and performing spaces; neocolonial and decolonial spaces. The history of fashion is informed by space and its politics: fashion cities, sacrifice zones, extraction geographies, centres and peripheries. Being in fashion is to have fashion impose itself on bodies and spaces through issues of access and acceptance. However, fashion is also a tool to drive change, assert non-normative ideas, symbolise rebellion, and dress resistance. Through these acts, fashion creates various spaces and is instrumental in their improvement.

For this bilingual symposium, we have welcomed submissions in both English and French that investigate fashion and space(s)—real, imagined, and transformative—from a variety of theoretical or practical angles.

Stay tuned, as attendee registration will be opening soon!