This seminar takes the phenomenon of transnational fashion week as its object of study. Once located primarily in Paris, New York, or Milan, the fashion week calendar now runs year-round and across the globe: Toronto, Dubai, Singapore, and even Phoenix, Arizona. Threading together scholarship in queer, global fashion, and American studies, we will analyze transnational fashion week’s messy and glamorous dualities and their repercussions for couture’s performance of elite global capitalism.

Please RSVP: [email protected].
Pre-circulated texts will be provided to registrants.

Cosponsored by the Department of American Studies, the Department of Modern Culture and Media (MCM), and the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies (TAPS). 

See also:
Public Lecture with Denise Cruz: "On the Runway: Global Fashion and Filipino Nationalism in the Postwar Moment," March 9, 2016, 4pm.