(R)evolution Fashion

Name: (R)evolution Fashion
Start: 2025-12-17T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-17T17:30:00+00:00
Location: Somerset House East Wing - King's College London

Schedule

Wed Dec 17 2025 at 10:00 am to 05:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Somerset House East Wing - King's College London | London, EN

An immersive exploration of women’s style as protest, revisiting clothing as a site of defiance and co-creating its contemporary afterlives.
About this Event

Date and Time: 17th December, 2025 - Wednesday - 10 AM to 5:30 PM

Location: SW -2.07, Learning Centre, Somerset House East Wing, Strand Campus, Strand WC2R 1LA

Unravel the threads of resistance in (R)evolution Fashion, an immersive exploration of how women’s style becomes protest. Drawing from sartorial archives and material memory, (R)evolution Fashion revisits women’s attire as a site of gendered defiance. Visitors are invited to interrogate and co-create the contemporary afterlives of these parallel resistances.

The revolution component is explored through modes of archival and material history, revisiting the role of women in resistance movements across various spatio-temporal gradients. It foregrounds the embodied labour of women through style and aesthetic performances, revealing fashion as a site of protest, defiance and collective identity.

The evolution component is portrayed through the contemporary decontextualisation and reinterpretation of protest culture and style. By reimagining past forms within modern frameworks, it exposes the cyclical transformation of fashion; acts of resistance are continually reframed and reclaimed as expressions of renewed agency, defiance and shifting identity.