Hey Women and Media students! I’m going to add the Mulvey reading now, I thought it was there with the bell hooks piece. Here are some links to it too: here and here. See you tonight!
Last week I took my classes to the Museum at FIT to take a look at the “Fashioning the 70s” exhibit. The work of Halston and Yves Saint Laurent (or YSL as students told me) were set side by side to showcase the similarities between the designers and to also express the spirit of the … More 1970s Fashion
Here’s the full paper I gave at the Eastern Sociological Society Conference, February 28, 2015. * “Boy Kings” is taken from Kate Losse’s book, The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network, 2012. Free Press. Normcore of Boy Kings This paper takes up the recent (and now, most likely, passé) trend-normcore and … More The Normcore of “Boy Kings”*
Tomorrow I’m giving a brief talk on the normcore trend in fashion, specifically regarding clothing. I will sketch out the aesthetic of normcore against Simmel’s thesis on fashion, the increasing power of Silicon Valley, and the amplification of precarity from neoliberal economic policies. Here are a few images that capture the look: And Steve Jobs: … More Normcore notes
Fashioning Sociology 