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Through a focus on the everyday object, this one-day symposium explores both the experience of visual culture in everyday life and the phenomenon of the everyday in visual culture. Drawing on theories of the everyday from such fields as... more
                     Straps and Trains m the Viking Age: Birka's Female Costume in a New Light Since 1938, when Agnes Geijer presented... more
Cocktail culture in the postwar United States thrived through the mid-1960s and thanks to an expanded middle class, consumerism also increased. Affordable goods, accessible recipes, and concentrated suburban communities where material... more
(NB: The once uploaded article has been removed. It is now part of a book: 'GANDHI AND THE POPES' (Peter Lang Publishers, 2015). The original version is still available in 'Gandhi Marg' 33/3. SYNOPSIS: Eighty years ago, Gandhi visited... more
This article explores figures of visibility and otherness in H.G. Wells’s novel 'The Invisible Man', discussing the relevance of such figures to the historical paradigm of the Victorian period in which the text was written. Through an... more
A paper on the sartoriar landscape in mid-19th c. Greece, included in the exhibition catalogue: "Paris-Athènes. Naissance de la Grèce moderne, 1675-1919"
Texto publicado en:
Fernández, C. (2013). De vestidos y cuerpos. Medellín: UPB.
Fernández, C. (2013). De vestidos y cuerpos. Medellín: UPB.
As a culturally produced text, literature is seen as a lens with the potential to draw attention to the values, ideas, and beliefs that underlie a society. In this paper three key themes in H.G. Wells' novel 'The Invisible Man'... more
"The process of cultural globalisation does not always imply cultural homogenisation. Rather, it can be seen as a process of cultural ‘glocalisation’ and hybridisation where cultures continuously interact with and interpret each other... more
This paper deals with the role of garment metaphors in the conceptualization of emotion. Metaphor plays a central role in the formation of emotional concepts, as indeed in the formation of concepts in general. Typically, this is a matter... more
This thesis discusses how British Quaker women negotiated relinquishing their religiously prescribed Plain dress from 1860 to 1914 in the context of developments in Quaker feminine identity. This thesis approaches its subjects by... more
Objectives: To help students: (1) think critically about how they perform gender through clothing choices; (2) recognize how different cultures define masculinity and femininity. Courses: Communication Theory, Gender and Communication,... more
In the recent Bloomsbury publication Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present, author Alison Matthews David chronicles the disturbing history of the failure of clothing to protect its wearers, despite the fact that... more
Sylvia Plath’s roman-a-clef, The Bell Jar (1963), remains a commercial and critical success more than a half-a-century after its initial publication. I suggest that one of the reasons for the novel’s enduring popularity is Plath’s... more
saggio sulla vita intima di palazzo degli infanti di spagna: abito, vita diaria, amuleti, pratiche culturali e mediche, iconografía pittorica tra fine Cinquecento e inizi Seicento
"Readers unfamiliar with contemporary Japanese media might be puzzled by the appearance of men in fashion magazines. This is particularly the case for images of Japanese young men whose strong concerns over their appearance and slender... more
Fashion Digital Memories EUROPEANA FASHION SYMPOSIUM 2017 Venice, May 22-23, 2017 Conservation/Explication: The Costume Institute’s use of digital technologies for the preservation and interpretation of its Charles James collection by... more
Texto publicado en:
Fernández, C. (2013). De vestidos y cuerpos. Medellín: UPB.
Palabras clave: Diseño de vestuario, Cuerpo, Vestido, Espacio, Performance, Movimiento, Vanguardias Artísticas, Artes Plásticas
Fernández, C. (2013). De vestidos y cuerpos. Medellín: UPB.
Palabras clave: Diseño de vestuario, Cuerpo, Vestido, Espacio, Performance, Movimiento, Vanguardias Artísticas, Artes Plásticas
Caterina Sforza, Lucrezia Borgia, Isabella d’Este, Vittoria Colonna and Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj are the five, iconic ladies, called to interpret the style of three centuries between the Renaissance and the Baroque. For each of... more
"This article examined the development of the 'all-white' morris costume with a focus on the late 19th and early 20th century.
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La mia ricerca sulle tessitrici di Nule si è sviluppata all'Interno di una ricerca sul campo di piú ampia portata, a proposito del fenomeno del dono in Sardegna. Mi sono sentito benevolmente "costretto" a raccogliere materiale riguardante... more
Within the existing discourse the fields of philosophy, anthropology and sociology provide critical context to fashion studies, while hermeneutics and theology remain in the margins. Religion as a topic is dealt with in the main, via... more
Fashion is often described as asserting or reinforcing social or professional bonds, but rarely is such a fixed bond established as when garments physically link one body to another. We may be familiar with shared garments in dramatic... more
Interview regarding issues raised in Susan Elizabeth Ryan's book, Garments of Paradise. Geert Lovink and Rebecca Louise Breuer
Cátedra Abierta, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín Ponentes: Claudia Fernández Silva, Mauricio Velásquez Posada Abril 28 del 2011 Presentación de la ponencia:... more
In existing Fashion Studies scholarship, religion is primarily dealt with at two ends of the spectrum in the context of material culture - via ethnographic studies of situated religious dress practice or the spectacularization of... more