Globally Connected @ FIT: Slender and Beautiful: On Standards in the Fashion Industry
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- Title
- Globally Connected @ FIT: Slender and Beautiful: On Standards in the Fashion Industry
- Date
- 2022-11-03
- Description
- Paolo Volonté, Author of Fat Fashion: The Thin Ideal and the Segregation of Plus-Size Bodies (2021)is in conversation with FIT Professor Yuni Kawamura.
- This talk will provide an analysis of the contentious issue of the tyranny of slenderness in fashion. In closely examining the thin ideal and the segregation of fatness in the fashion system, and focusing on womenswear, it will explore fashion as a situated practice from the perspective both of producers and consumers, industry and society, technology and the body. Discussing the countertrends that are increasingly emerging in today’s fashion, it will be argued that a possible change in the body ideal cultivated by fashion will not depend on random events promoted by the fashion system, but on social changes of a more general nature.
- Paolo Volonté is Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology at Politecnico di Milano, where he teaches the Sociology of Fashion. He is also co-editor of the International Journal of Fashion Studies. His work addresses fashion professions (design, styling), fashion and art, and the Italian fashion system. In 2021 he published the book Fat Fashion. The Thin Ideal and the Segregation of Plus-Size Bodies (Bloomsbury).
- Dr. Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura earned her PhD in Sociology from Columbia University and is trained as a professional designer at Bunka College of Fashion in Japan, Kingston University in the UK, and FIT.
- Hosted by the Office of International Programs, History of Art, and the Cultural Fellows
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- This video was produced by the Fashion Institute of Technology ("FIT") and is the property of FIT. FIT expressly prohibits the copying, displaying, or uploading to a website of any portion of this video, except for the purposes of fair use as defined in the copyright laws, without express written permission from FIT. This video has been made available online by the Fashion Institute of Technology Gladys Marcus Library strictly for research and educational purposes. If you are the copyright holder for content in this video and have any objections to this work being made available online, please notify us immediately at [email protected].
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- FIT Repository ID: aod_001127
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Fashion Institute of Technology. (2022, November 3). Globally Connected @ FIT: Slender and Beautiful: On Standards in the Fashion Industry [Video]. Archive on Demand. https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/602027
Fashion Institute of Technology. "Globally Connected @ FIT: Slender and Beautiful: On Standards in the Fashion Industry." Archive on Demand, 3 Nov. 2022, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/602027
Fashion Institute of Technology, "Globally Connected @ FIT: Slender and Beautiful: On Standards in the Fashion Industry," Archive on Demand, November 3, 2022, video, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/602027