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We are a mixed media focused, open access, and academic journal in the field of fashion studies. Fashion Studies is a new voice in our field.

It will be published annually by Toronto Metropolitan University’s Centre for Fashion Diversity & Systemic Change and is the first open access journal in fashion studies. We are an open-source journal available to all at no cost to readers or authors. We join the movement of scholars who wish to push back against the exploitative corporate publishing monopoly that profits from publicly funded and

free academic and creative labour. We believe in the democratic dissemination of scholarly and creative work that removes Western and elitist barriers and paywalls. Acceptance is based on a rigorous, double-blind peer-review process by top scholarly and creative academics. One of the strengths of fashion studies is its interdisciplinarity. We welcome innovative work engaging with the study of fashion from all disciplines, including social sciences, humanities and creative fields. We are open to diverse theoretical and methodological approaches in a broad range of written and creative formats. In light of the fact that fashion is one of the most exploitative industries of both people and the environment, we particularly encourage work that engages with the relationship between fashion, diversity and social change historically and today. It is our aim to produce and disseminate work that both critiques the system and seeks to reimagine it, refashioning the world into a more equitable, just and inclusive place.

08/01/2024

We are pleased to introduce one of our Volume 5 Launch Panelists, Alphonso McClendon. Alphonso McClendon, Associate Professor at Drexel University, researches the social, racial, and political intersections of African American history, jazz, and global influence. His publications include “Black by Popular Demand at HBCUs”, in Fresh, Fly and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style (Rizzoli 2023), Fashion and Jazz: Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation (Bloomsbury 2015), “Hot, Cool and Gone in the Twenty-First Century”, in Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture (Intellect 2015), and “Fashionable Addiction: The Path to He**in Chic”, in Fashion in Popular Culture (Intellect 2013). McClendon’s research has been conducted at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers, the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane, the National Museum of American History, and the Free Library of Philadelphia. He has been an invited lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art of NYC, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, and Seoul National University.

To reserve your spot at the Volume 5 launch party, please visit the link in our bio.

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05/01/2024

You’re invited to the Volume 5 launch party of Fashion Studies! The event will take place from 4:00-6:00 PM at 110 Bond Street and will feature guest speakers, food, and light refreshments. We would love to see you there! Use the link in our bio to reserve your spot.

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28/12/2023

Sneak peek alert! We are so excited to announce that Volume 5 is on the horizon. Stay tuned for the grand reveal!

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22/12/2023

You have mail! Our fall newsletter has hit your inbox. In this newsletter, you will find an article highlight, author highlights, and some exciting news for the future. Subscribe to the Fashion Studies newsletter using the link in our bio!

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08/12/2023

We are excited to introduce the newest member of Fashion Studies, Nimla Alam! Nimla is a first-year master's student and is working as a Communications Specialist.

Nimla (she/her) holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Memorial University in Newfoundland, specializing in marketing. Nimla is currently pursuing her Master of Arts in Fashion at TMU. She is also gaining valuable experience as a Marketing Intern at TMU's Asian Fashion Student Association (AFSA).

Nimla's research is dedicated to exploring the intricacies of Muslim fashion, delving into cultural differences and market dynamics within this niche. She aims to provide insightful advice for the industry's expansion and cater to the diverse demands of the global Muslim consumer base. In her spare time, Nimla enjoys shopping, grabbing coffee with friends, and exploring new restaurants. Beyond her professional pursuits, she is driven by a passion for contributing to positive change within the fashion industry.

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29/11/2023

Check out the Volume 4, Issue 2 article "Dressed in Time: In Conversation with Dr. Margaret Maynard and Dr. Elizabeth Kutesko.” Click the link in our bio to read the full article on our website!

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Image 2: Against a multi-coloured background features the abstract of the article, which reads “We know that time is central to our understanding of dress and clothing, encompassing questions of speed, slowness, production and consumption, and representation. Yet time and clocks are not neutral, but rather serve political, economic, technological, and imperial purposes in their everyday shaping of bodies and fashion. Who sets the dominant pace of fashion, after all, and how does this manifest…”

Image 3: The abstract continues, reading “... in the surrounding visual and material cultures of dress, as well as how we research and write about them? This conversation between Elizabeth Kutesko and Margaret Maynard arose from Elizabeth’s fascination surrounding the recently published book Dressed in Time (2022), and Maynard’s use of time as an interrogative tool to foreground the complexity of global dress practices that…”

Image 4: The abstract continues and finishes, reading “... extend far beyond historians’ favouring of linear chronology and periodization. This conversation also responds to the current turn within the humanities – namely anthropology, history, material culture and museum studies, and design history – whereby time has become of central concern.” The link to Volume 4 is found at the bottom of the page.]

17/11/2023

The Fashion Studies Network (FSN) has officially launched! This network aims to establish a thriving academic ecosystem between institutes across both New York City and Toronto. Slide through this post to learn more about the network, and stay tuned for announcements regarding the symposium and submissions.

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09/11/2023

We are pleased to introduce the newest member of Fashion Studies! Kyle Shepherd, an undergraduate TMU Fashion student, will be joining the journal as an intern.

Kyle is a writer, researcher, and artist currently in the Fashion program at Toronto Metropolitan University. Concentrating in Fashion Studies, Kyle enjoys researching using an interdisciplinary framework that demonstrates fashion’s ability to showcase the intricacies of human experience and how fashion plays a role in daily life. He is specifically interested in how the Eurocentric fashion model affects Western fashion pedagogy and how we can work towards a holistic, inclusive space that encompasses subcultures and histories that are often neglected in academic rhetoric.

After completing his undergraduate degree, Kyle plans to pursue both a master’s and a PhD relating to fashion, art, curation, and criticism. Outside of his research, Kyle enjoys spending his time working on TMU’s Fashion Course Union to create events and opportunities that improve the university experience for fashion students. Kyle hopes that through his work, he can stimulate engaging conversation and ideas surrounding what fashion is and what it can achieve.

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07/11/2023

Introducing the Fashion Studies Network (FSN), a collaborative scholarly community focused on the sharing of innovative research, methodologies, and practices in the field of fashion. Stay tuned, we have an exciting announcement coming up!

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25/10/2023

Introducing one of our authors Nicholas Paganelli. Nicholas is a clothing designer and production manager turned creative technologist, exploring how to update clothing production technology for the twenty-first century.

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19/10/2023

Check out the Special Issue: State of the Field article “‘Hombres sí/Hombres nó:’ Fashioning Masculinity in Early Twentieth Century Puerto Rico” by Antonio Hernández-Matos. Link in our bio to read the full article.

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06/10/2023

Introducing one of our authors Megan K. Hughes. Megan is a PhD student at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). A Contract Lecturer at TMU, and international award-winning milliner, Megan creates for her professional label, “MKH Millinery.” In 2022, Megan published an interview in Fashion Studies (4:1) journal, as well as a review in Fashion Theory (26:5) journal.

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29/09/2023

Check out one of the panel discussions "Beadwork Circles as Resurgent Practices" from Fashion Studies' special issue, Fashioning Resurgence.

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07/09/2023

Check out the Volume 4, Issue 2 article “Review: Alexander McQueen: Art Meets Fashion” by Julia Skelly. Click the link in our bio to read the full article on our website!

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17/08/2023

Introducing one of our authors Margo Beggs. Dr. Margo L. Beggs is an independent scholar in Toronto, ON, specializing in nineteenth-century art and visual culture. She received a PhD from the University of Toronto in 2013, where she was a sessional lecturer in art history for nine years. Her fascination with the overlooked and the ephemeral has guided her research on Victorian era sculpture, photography, and fashion, and their points of intersection. Most recently, she has been researching nineteenth-century illustrated manuscripts by women artists in the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books.

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02/08/2023

Meet Fashion Studies alumni, Helen Chen, who was a Graphic Designer with the journal in 2021.

Helen is a new media artist, designer and aspiring researcher. Over the last 3 years, she has worked with numerous organizations to help solve a wide range of communication and visual design problems in various fields, including: nonprofit data collection, fashion sustainability, and most recently, at the intersection of public health policy and experiential art. Her favourite ways of contextualizing design work involve user interviews, participatory design sessions, and/or research in critical theory and culture studies.

As Graphic Designer, Helen Chen made contributions to the journal’s social media and graphic design team by helping to further develop the design and conceptualization of projects, such as our Special Issues, within the journal and introducing a MailChimp newsletter into our wheelhouse of content.

You can read more about past team members on our website at www.fashionstudies.ca/team!

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25/07/2023

Reminder that The Fashioning Resurgence team is looking for a Research Assistant!

The role will offer editorial support for the launch of a special issue of Fashion Studies in partnership with Fashioning Resurgence through the Centre for Fashion & Systemic Change. This position is $21.00/hour for 5 hours per week, for approximately 12 months.

Applications are due by July 28th, 2023! Please submit a cover letter and C.V. in a single PDF document to [email protected] and [email protected]

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22/06/2023

To celebrate pride month, we’re revisiting an article from Volume 2 Issue 2: Exhibition Review: Gender Bending Fashion by Myriam Couturier. Click the link in our bio to check it out!

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15/06/2023

Check out the Volume 4, Issue 2 article "Exhibition Review: Remembering S-21 Victims Through Their Clothes" by Magali An Berthon. Click the link in our bio to read the full article on our website!

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08/06/2023

Introducing one of our authors Art Blake. Art Blake is Full Professor in the Department of History at Toronto Metropolitan University. Art (he/him) is an interdisciplinary, trans male scholar with research interests and publications, all linked by analyses of “difference,” in urban history, sound studies, race, gender, and sexuality studies. His current research looks at the support networks and events created by and among men who self-identified as “crossdressers” in the 1960s and 1980s, in the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Blake’s publications include Radio, Race and Audible Difference in Post-1945 America: The Citizens Band (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), How New York Became American, 1890-1924 (John Hopkins University, 2006, 2009) as well as publications such as American Quarterly, Sounding Out! (online), and in collections such as Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, edited by D. Suisman and S. Strasser, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

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02/06/2023

Check out the Special Issue: State of the Field article “A Fashion Studies Manifesto: Toward an (Inter)disciplinary Field” by Fashion Studies co-founders Dr. Ben Barry and Dr. Alison Matthews David! Link in our bio to read the full article.

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27/05/2023

We are pleased to welcome our newest addition to the Fashion Studies team, Carlea Blight. Carlea will be supporting our team as our new Editorial Assistant.

Carlea is a writer, artist, and graduate student in the TMU-York Communication and Culture program. Her work explores the connections between food, body and identity through arts and practice-based research methods. In addition to her role as Editorial Assistant with Fashion Studies, Carlea also finds fulfillment as a writing consultant, and as a facilitator of digital storytelling workshops within her community. In her spare time, she explores her own creative projects through fashion, music, cooking, and film.

As an advocate for community art and engagement, Carlea strives to create inclusive spaces where individuals can connect with their own creativity. She is dedicated to fostering environments that encourage self-discovery, empower marginalized voices, and nurture artistic exploration. She aspires to continue her journey as a scholar and artist, pushing the boundaries of knowledge and fostering meaningful connections through her work.

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05/05/2023

"Where does Fashion Studies begin and where does it end? How can one map the boundaries of fashion research, which like fashion itself, are always changing, merging, appearing, and disappearing?" These questions guided the creation of our latest Special Issue, State of the Field, co-edited by Sarah Scaturro and Ann Marguerite Tartsinis. Visit our website today to read the rest of the Letter from the Editors, as well as the articles published in Issue 1.

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12/04/2023

Swipe to learn more about the amazing panelists that will be at the State of the Field launch event tomorrow morning!

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05/04/2023

Swipe to read more about the co-editors of our special issue State of the Field, Sarah Scaturro & Ann Marguerite Tartsinis.

State of the Field's launch event will take place April 13th, 10:30am-12:00pm EST virtually via Zoom.

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30/03/2023

You’re invited to the virtual launch of the special issue of Fashion Studies, State of the Field. The event will feature a panel conversation with authors from the issue moderated by co-editors Ann Marguerite Tartsinis, co-author of Mondrian’s Dress: Yves Saint Laurent, Piet Mondrian, and Pop Art, and Sarah Scaturro, Chief Conservator at the Cleveland Museum of Art. There will also be giveaways, opportunity for questions, and so much more. We ask that you bring the beverage of your choice and wear your favourite designer to the event.

Link in bio to register!

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01/03/2023

Check out the first article apart of Volume 4, Issue 2, "Review: Bata She Museum 2022 Founder's Lecture" by Sephra Lamothe and Amanda Pearn. Available to read on our website, link in our bio!

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