Caroline Evans – The Ontology of the Fashion Model



Lecture date: 2011-03-24

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The model is an intriguing mix of things: it can be a rudimentary sketch, an idea, a miniature, a set of instructions or a prototype. Only in fashion is the model a living, breathing human being. This talk explores the origins of fashion models in the nineteenth century and their uncanny confusion with mannequins in the twentieth, teasing out the contradictions between the model dress and the model woman.

Caroline Evans is Professor of Fashion History and Theory at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (University of the Arts, London) where she teaches and writes on twentieth-century and contemporary fashion. She is currently working on a history of early fashion shows and modernism.

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