DRESSCODES is a seminar dedicated to academic research on clothing and fashion, with a particular focus on innovative approaches and methodologies. Originally intended as a protection device for the body, clothing has developed into a semantic capacity to convey rich and complex meanings. This multidimensional character requires inputs from a wide range of disciplines like archaeology, cognitive science, psychology, linguistics and semiotics, or quantitative history. Similarly, fashion connotes an increased concern for body adornment, as well as an attempt at symbolizing the present time through dress options, calling for a multiplication of perspectives too, at the crossroads of history of art, aesthetics, economy, political science or consumer theory. DRESSCODES aims to provide the community studying clothing and fashion with the most recent advances stemming from the relevant disciplines. Lectures can deal with theoretical contributions introducing new models as well as empirical studies exemplifying them. Researchers may use DRESSCODES’ stage both to present the final outcomes of recent projects and work-in-progress on promising hypotheses.
A monthly seminar, DRESSCODES is open to the public by registration only (at research@ifmparis.fr).
Coordinator: Benjamin Simmenauer
October 10, 2024, Christina PAWLOWITSCH (Univ. Paris Panthéon Assas), Costly-signaling games : applications in dress and fashion
April 17, 2024, Gaëlle PANTIN-SOHIER (Université d'Angers), Rap et Luxe : le bon feat(fit) pour une image de marque cool ?
March 27 2024, Farid PAZHOOHI (Plymouth), Contrapposto Pose: Aesthetic Appeal and Contemporary Impact in Art and Fashion
February 14, 2024, Pascal ROUSSEAU (Paris 1), Le Dresscode queer de Marcel Duchamp: l'art de vie comme forme d'art.
January 24, 2024, Marilynn JOHNSON (University of San Diego), Structures or intentions? Meaning in Adorning Bodies from Barthes to Grice to Darwin
December 6 2023, Maialen SALCEDO BERRUETA (Paris 1), Fashion in the nation-building process: the case of Spanish alta costura
November 24, 2023, Ambre CREUX-MARTELLI (UQAM), An Exploratory Investigation of Garments’ Production Countries of Origin (COOs) Disclosure to Consumers
October 26, 2023 Silvia VACIRCA (Sapienza Univ, Rome), Fashioning Submission Through Bellezza Mensile dell’alta moda e di vita italiana
April 26, 2023, Alice AUDREZET (IFM), The authentic virtual influencer: The emergence of virtual spokes-characters and virtual free agents
March 22, 2023, Caroline GOOD, Sustainability, but make it sexy: leopard print fashion and the real life leopard
February 22, 2023, Hannes ROSENBUSCH (University of Amsterdam), Can computers anticipate personality inferences from clothes?
January 18, 2023, Hester VANACKER (IFM/Kering), Different dimensions of durability
October 25, 2022 Judith CLARK (LCF), Repeating References: Developing a [Personal] Language of Fashion Exhibition-making
June 29, 2022, Jana REYNOLDS (LSE), Messy methods and ‘going strange’ with fashion: Researching the fashion intermediaries’ community as an insider-becoming-outsider
May 11, 2022, Jospéhine RIEMENS (IFM / ENSAM): Exploring the challenges of textile recycling in the fashion and apparel industry
April 26, 2022, Emilie HAMMEN (IFM): Fashion, facing art