Y1 Fashion Studies Harper’s Bazaar Project
The MA Fashion Studies year 1 students kicked off the semester with their first research project on the online archive of the magazine Harper’s Bazaar. The project, which will result in an exhibition at the end of the semester at Galerie D, is titled ‘Fashionable Discourses’. This research follows a series of investigations, started last year, on the diffusion of critical discourses in fashion media during the decade preceding the advent of internet. For this research, the students are asked to focus on four main thematics: gender, labour, sustainability and race, through an exploration on the 1990s. The aim of the research is to unveil what languages and regimes of representation were adopted in the pre-internet era, in order to reveal how contemporary issues were discussed (or not) before the proliferation of a more globalized digital discourse.
Stay tuned for more updates regarding this project!