Textual Fashion: Representing fashion and clothing in word and image (July 2015, Brighton UK)

Dates: 8-10 July 2015
Location: University of Brighton, UK
Website:http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/research-conferences/textual-fashion-conference
Deadline for submissions: 19 January 2015

Since 1990, a critical body of work by scholars in Britain, Europe and America, including Jane Gaines, Caroline Evans and Clair Hughes, has underscored the key role that verbal and visual representations of fashion and clothing have in understanding issues such as period style, taste and human identities. Building on their achievement, this event will foreground international cutting-edge research in what Roland Barthes terms ‘l’écriture,’ that is the ways that fashion and dress are mediated and translated into word and image in literature, journalism, memoirs and correspondence, photography, illustration, film, television, advertising, music video, and online through websites and blogs.