Fashion and Dress Cultures

International conference

Fashion and dress cultures concern a large and diverse group of scholars at universities, design schools, museums and other institutions. Often we speak different languages and carry out research with different purposes. It is the firm belief of the organising committee that we need a dialogue between different approaches and disciplines in order to strengthen the quality of fashion and dress studies and to stimulate new areas of research. This international and interdisciplinary conference, therefore, is a joint forum for research focusing on fashion and dress cultures in terms of cultural heritage, art history, cultural production, material culture, design history and social and cultural theory.  

Today's fashion and dress studies

The conference theme is intended to reflect a range of issues that characterize fashion and dress studies today. This includes the influence from material culture studies; fashion and dress in everyday life; fashion and dress and the formation of modern identity, the embodied experience of fashion and dress, the role of fashion and dress in global society.

The conference is arranged by Danmarks Designskole, The Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, Literature and the Arts, Danish Museum of Art & Design, Imagine.. Creative Industries Research Centre at the Copenhagen Business School, The National Museum of Denmark and The Costume Group of Danish Museums.