On February 26, 2021 the ArtEZ Fashion Professorship will host its first online panel talk for the BA Fashion Design students. The topic of the talk will be fashion and embodiment, and for this, we invited ArtEZ BA Fashion Design alumna Sinéad O'Dwyer. An introduction to the topic will be given by Daniëlle Bruggeman, followed by an interview with Sinéad by embodied researcher Chet Bugter.

Sinéad O’Dwyer is a London-based fashion designer. O'Dwyer's RCA graduate collection featured sculptural pieces part-moulded from body parts, which explored the way in which we perceive our body versus the reality of how it looks. Everyday perceptions of the human form are an ongoing theme explored in O'Dwyer's work. To get more information please visit the website here and Instagram. 

Chet Julius Bugter is an activist, artistic and embodied researcher, writer and educator.  Through (participatory) performance, written and visual essays, manifestos and film, Chet aims to circumvent the ways in which the gender binary is expressed in and through fashion. For more information please visit the website here, and Instagram.

If you are interested in fashion and embodiment, we can highly recommend taking a look at the following sources:

"Uneasy bodies: Affect, Embodied Perception, and Contemporary Fashion Photography" by Eugénie Shinkle in Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics. See this link. 

"Technologies for Seductive Criticism" by Gabriel Maher. 

"Mediated Bodies*" by Gabriel Maher. 

"#DeGenderFashion: Harry Styles on the Cover of Vogue" by ALOK

"Patriarchal Beauty" by ALOK

"Trans/Generation" by ALOK | UnErase Poetry