Dr Elizabeth Kutesko
Title
Pathway Leader BA Fashion Communication: Fashion History and Theory
College
Central Saint Martins
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Biography
Elizabeth Kutesko is a cultural historian and alumna of the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she obtained her PhD in 2016. Her research explores fashion as a transnational form of modernity, which ties together geography – telling stories of the land; nationality – telling stories of the nation; and identity – telling stories of the self. She leads the MA in Fashion Communication: Fashion Critical Studies and the BA in Fashion Communication: Fashion History & Theory at Central Saint Martins. She is the author of Fashioning Brazil: Globalization and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic (Bloomsbury, 2018) and is currently working on a new book Fashion and the Devil's Railroad: Dress, Temporality, and Modernities in the Brazilian Amazon (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). Further information on her research projects can be viewed at elizabethkutesko.comExternal Links
Research Outputs
Article
- Kutesko E. Entering the Contact Zone: Reflections on a Conceptual Framework Used to Study Brazilian Fashion (2019)
- Kutesko E. Fashioning Brazil: National Identity and the Politics of Globalisation in Contemporary Brazilian Fashion Photography (2016)
- Kutesko E. Fashioning Brazil: Globalization and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic since 1988 (2016)
- Kutesko E. Problems and Tensions in the Representation of the Sapeurs, as demonstrated in the work of two twenty-first century Italian photographers (2013)
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Subjects
Accessories, footwear and jewellery
Curation and culture
Fashion communication
Fashion making and pattern cutting
Fashion styling and make up
Photography
Textiles and materials