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Issue 1

Letter from the Editors

by ben barry AND alison matthews david

Fashion Studies Volume 3 Launch and Panel

Moderated by Dr. Ben Barry and Dr. Alison Matthews David

An illustration of two figures, one slim and one stout, accompanied by two vertical lines of the same length, but one with arrows pointing inward and the other with arrows pointing outward. The arrows cause the lines to look as if they are different…

Body as Architecture: Designing the Stout Body in the Age of Standardization

By Lauren Downing Peters

Philip Sparks wearing A Suit Made Not to Fit while moving away from the camera, his extended sleeves flying with his arm movements.

Missed Fit

By Philip Sparks

Thick bundles of blue-tinged yarn hanging from a wooden dryer rack outdoors.

#NaturalDye

by kelsie doty, denise nicole green, and dehanzA rogers

I Have Three Hearts by Awol Erizku and Beyonce. Beyonce stands amongst a variety of plants and an Egyptian statuette in front of a yellow backdrop. She is wearing sheer tights adorned with flowers.

**From Venus to “Black Venus”:**
Beyoncé’s I Have Three Hearts, Fashion, and the Limits of Visual Culture

By Cheryl Thompson

Archival photo of Thomas Moore where he has been dressed in women's Indigenous dress, with long braided hair.

Indigenous Dress Theory and Dress in Canadian Residential Schools

By Shawkay ottmann

Kristen posed with her mother for a family photo. Kristen stands behind her mother, beaming, and wearing a blue and black floral printed dress with 80s style shoulder pads.

You Aren’t What You Wear: An Exploration into Infinifat Identity Construction and Performance through Fashion

by calla evans

A cyanotype of a pair of glossy gloves, palm side down, and placed with the right glove on the left and the left glove on the right.

Affect and Sensation

By Ellen Sampson

A diagram produced with Nicole Ngai. Text reads, I work with people who are close to me, they are people who, I have a lot in common. We have common visions, common references, common politics, common experiences, as queer people and people of colou…

Diagrammatic Manifestos: A Method for Studying the Fluidity of Gender in the Production of Fashion Photography

by Floriane misslin

Johanna Westerdijk seated at her desk, wearing a pleated blouse with a bow tied around her neck.

Fashioning the Academic and Private Self: The Clothing of Johanna Westerdijk in the Context of her Biography

by Marta kargól

Two side-by-side photos of Kim Kardashian West from the front and back, leaning back into a wall of pink flowers and wearing a wet-looking latex dress covered in beaded crystal raindrops.

The Kurious Kase of Kim Kardashian’s Korset

By Alanna McKnight

Issue 2

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Review: Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto 2020

by Nigel Lezama

Review: Diversity Now! 2021 with Nigel “Legin” John, Legin Knits

by Bianca Zanotti

Review: Diversity Now! 2020 with Becca McCharen-Tran, CHROMAT

By Ryan Chantree

Clothing, Colonial Subjugation and the Performance of Political Authority in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

by Mitchell Gauvin

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Marks of Obsession: Appearance, Transformation, Pain, and the Abject Female Body

By Anna Pollice

Entangled Fashion: A Psychosocial Contribution to Fashion Ethics in Times of Crisis

by ana minozzo