Fashion in Theory: Historicisation, Subjectivity and Practice

Philosophers, activists and academics are increasingly recruited to collaborate with designers and luxury brands, being featured in campaigns, fashion shows, publications or special projects. Alongside this, communication strategies in brands are also widely adopting a discourse of resistance on politics and critical thinking, using concepts in their statements such as 'phenomenology', 'resistance', 'gender fluidity' and 'commodity fetishism'.

Based on the newly published volume (edited by Marco Pecorari and published by Manchester University Press), this panel discussion takes as its point of departure this new penchant for critical theory and theorists in fashion, exploring the relation between theory and fashion as both practice and discourse.

Bringing together a highly distinguished group of leading international figures in critical theory and fashion theory, including Marco Pecorari, Angela McRobbie, Carol Tulloch, Caroline Evans, Sarah Cheang, Morna Laing, Marta Franceschini, Saul Marcadent, Caroline Stevenson, and Serkan Delice, the panel will explore the multiple meanings and contexts in which the term 'theory' and the action of 'theorising' have appeared in relation to fashion.

The session will conclude with a Q&A segment, allowing audience members to ask questions and participate in the discussion.

Advance booking is strictly required.

We hope you can join us for what promises to be a thought-provoking event.

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Host or Publisher London College of Fashion, UAL