In my thesis “Silhouettes – Shapes in Fashion and the Fashioned Body”, I described the silhouettes of fashion as tools for social and cultural negotiation in relation to identity, gender, status, ethnicity etc. Central discussions where the development of women’s- and men’s fashion since the beginning of the 19th Century, and the influence of immigrants on fashion in the western world. Also central is the notion of fashion as a three-dimensional shape that through the manipulation of body movements socializes the individual in a given culture.
After my graduation I worked as a freelance fashion writer for a number of Danish fashion magazines and fashion companies, including Euroman, where I am still associated.
September 2006 I started working on my report “Fashion Research at Design Schools”, as a research assistant at Designskolen Kolding. On the basis of case studies in England, Holland and the U.S. I discuss the conditions and developments in fashion research in relation to the research upgrading of design schools going on in a number of countries.
My PhD project will continue the discussions in my theses, with a specific focus on the relation between movement, cut and materials in men’s fashion.

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