Teaching and Learning
The Fabric of Cultures team had the honor of presenting at CUNY’s second Teaching and Learning Conference, held the first week of April. According to their webs...
Category:Fashion Research Forum
Fashion Research Forum section for Fabric of Cultures
How to Communicate a Positive Message Through Fashion
For a month, I wore nothing but the clothes I made- including undergarments. I only learned how to sew the month prior. I did this for my capstone project. Whil...
Keeping Time with Fashion
As we near the end of the semester and prepare for the new year, I feel like a chapter is closing. However, looking solely at the fashion industry, one would no...
Staring Straight at “Sunshine State”
Last week, our class (Archaeology of Media: Film, Fashion, Montage) visited the new Steve McQueen exhibit at Dia Chelsea. It was an incredibly moving experience...
Fashioning Utopia
Do you know that feeling when you get home from a long day at work and change into comfortable clothes, that feeling of your whole body sighing with relief? Or,...
Costumes and Embodiment with Zombie Marilyn Monroe
"Some of my favorite research involves exploring iconic celebrity looks through the lens of fashion as a situated body practice. How might Marilyn Monroe have f...
Revolutionary Beauty
On Beauty and Being Just by Elain Scarry is a meditation on the meaning and usefulness of beauty for everyone. I use her definitions of beauty, as well as my ow...
Honoring the Everyday
"Real Clothes, Real Lives" expands common assumptions of what and who is history-making.
The Absence of Beauty: Class Project 1
There is a certain beauty that I miss, a beauty that has called to me since early this year. This has been a reflective year for many reasons: death, anniversar...
A Visit to Parsons Textiles Studio with Professor Gopinath
As New York prepared to kick off fashion week, students in Archaeology of Media: Film, Fashion, Montage, a combined Graduate Center and Parsons course, visited ...
