Shari Tamar Akal
is a former lecturer at the Durban University of Technology and FEDISA. She currently resides in Cape Town, South Africa. This chapter is based on her Master’s dissertation completed with The Durban University of Technology and partially funded by the National Research Foundation.
Jess Berry
is a fashion scholar and design historian at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research is concerned with the fashion city, fashion new media, fashion intersections with art, architecture and the interior and Australian fashion history. Recent articles have appeared in Journal of Design History, Craft + Design Enquiry and Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style. She is editor of Fashion Capital: Style Economies, Sites and Cultures (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012).
Naomi Braithwaite
is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion Marketing and Branding at Nottingham Trent University. She has published research on the creative practice of shoe designers and the cultural meaning of clothing and shoes.
Claire Eldred
is a PhD candidate in the History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London. She is currently writing a PhD thesis focused on Schiaparelli’s Lobster Dress and her research interests include Surrealism, fashion of the 1930s and the contemporary curation of fashion in museums and art galleries.
Sarah Heaton
is an Associate Professor and Head of English at the University of Chester. She gained her PhD at Keele University and has worked in the fashion retail business. Her main research focus is fashion in literature and art at the turn of the century and in contemporary literature. She has publications on vampire and zombie fashion through to clothing in Henry James, Edith Wharton and F. Scott Fitzgerald. With colleagues she has set up the Textile Stories project.
Hilde Heim
is a couture designer and studio proprietor, fashion educator and (at the time of writing) Doctor of Creative Industries student, researching changing fashion careers, particularly in small-scale enterprises.
is the Course Leader for the BA (Honours) Fashion Media program at the University of the Arts London. Her research interests include the interplay between consumption, production and experience in relation to contemporary fashion.
Sarah Mole
gained her MPhil in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She later performed research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council investigating the contemporary fashion system surrounding British ‘street-style.’
Lynn S. Neal
is Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religions at Wake Forest University. She is the author of Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction. She is currently working on a book-length examination of religion and fashion. For more, visit her website: lynn-neal.squarespace.com.
Laura Petican
is an art historian specialized in modern and contemporary art and theory. She is Assistant Professor and Director of University Galleries at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where her research is centred on Italian art and nationalism, and the intersections of art history and fashion studies.
Cecilia Winterhalter
is a contemporary historian and fashion sociologist, working on the construction of new identities through fashion, trends, consumption, luxury, innovative products and food. She has been employed in the luxury sector, has taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology (Florence), the London College of Fashion, the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS University) in Rome and is currently lecturing at the Accademia Costume e Moda in Rome.
Manrutt Wongkaew
is a dance and fashion scholar who has completed his doctoral research in Fashion Performance at the department of Dance, Film, and Theatre, University of Surrey. Aside from academia, Manrutt works as a professional dancer and choreographer and carries an extensive portfolio in fashion styling. He also has his own practice where he incorporates his choreographed movements and poses from contemporary dance with his fashion styling and art direction to enhance visuals and kinetic properties in high-fashion clothing.