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Transnational Fashion Hub

Balenciaga re-edition double page spread Spring/Summer 2018. The left page shows black text on a white background stating: Don't touch me! Don't question me! Stay with me. The right page shows text overlaying a photograph. The text reads: Don't speak to me! The model is dressed in an over-sized striped shirt with a transparent PVC mac layered on top.
Balenciaga’s Collection for Spring/Summer 2018. Re-Edition, issue 9, Spring/Summer 2018. Photography Danko Steiner. Fashion Director Ana Steiner. Copyright: Ana and Danko Steiner.

Transnational Fashion Hub gathers theorists and practitioners interested in the intricate interplay between the forces of global and local change in the fields of symbolic and material production and consumption of fashion.

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About this group

The significant scale and pace of global change makes it an opportunity to analyse the creative, cultural, political, financial, economic and technological aspects of transnational fashion, focusing on the transnational travel and intersections of people, commodities, and capital within the circuits of consumption, production, representation and subject formation.

Existing inter-disciplinary academic and practical skills enables the Transnational Fashion Hub to advance theoretical and methodological tools through which to explore the phenomenon of transnational fashion and to foster novel approaches to the field.

Formats for engagement include informal presentations, roundtable discussions and themed symposia with prominent UK-based and international thinkers, industry, media and practitioners.

The Hub operates as an open platform for all London College of Fashion staff, undergraduate, postgraduate and research students across LCF’s Schools - Communications and Media, Design and Technology and Fashion Business.

Staff, students, and colleagues external to the university, are also welcome to join associated activities relevant to the Hub's aims and objectives.

UAL members

External members

  • Erica de Greef co-founder of the African Fashion Research Institute, Cape Town
  • Wanda Lephoto, artist and co-founder of The Sartists, Johannesburg
  • Alison Moloney, independent curator and writer, London
  • Monica Moisin, Founder of the Cultural Intellectual Property Rights Initiative, Berlin

PhD researchers

  • Eldina Begic: Workwear and utopia: a dress manual for the socialist future
  • Rawan Maki: Resource flow analysis and sustainability implications of  traditional Arab garbs in the GCC (Bahrain and UAE)
  • Natasha Vinnikova: An Investigation Into Fashion as an Indicator of Women’s Role in Society Through the Lens of Soviet Films Between 1953 –1991

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