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Fashion & Justice

Fashion forms part of a society’s rich tapestry and can serve as an entry point into contemplating how marginalized and radicalized communities understand themselves and their place in the world. “Fashion & Justice” is a daylong workshop that examines the role of fashion in challenging inequality through sartorial ingenuity. The schedule will include an analysis of artwork and artistic projects, partial film screenings, review of relevant literature, conversations with guest speakers, and a look at designers, artists, journalists, curators, photographers, and academics who explore the fashion system through a critical lens. Participants will leave the workshop with a  syllabus equipping them with tools to understand how marginalized communities harness fashion to negotiate the complexities of power and visibility (and the lack thereof), proposing substantive solutions for a more just fashion system.

Scholars Kimberly Jenkins and Jonathan Michael Square will lead the workshop. Jonathan Square is a writer and professor of history at Harvard University, specializing in fashion and visual culture in the African Diaspora. Kimberly Jenkins is a visiting assistant professor of fashion history and theory at Pratt Institute and part-time lecturer at Parsons School of Design. Kimberly specializes in the sociocultural and historical influences behind why we wear what we wear, specifically addressing how politics, psychology, race and gender shapes the way we ‘fashion’ our identity.

The workshop will include guest speaker Elizabeth Way. Elizabeth Way is an assistant curator at the Museum at FIT where she was instrumental in curating and organizing the recent Black Fashion Designers exhibition and symposium. She has also published a study of African American dressmakers Elizabeth Keckley and Ann Lowe for Fashion Theory.











When: Sat., Jul. 15, 2017 at 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Ave.
212-229-8900
Price: $30
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Fashion forms part of a society’s rich tapestry and can serve as an entry point into contemplating how marginalized and radicalized communities understand themselves and their place in the world. “Fashion & Justice” is a daylong workshop that examines the role of fashion in challenging inequality through sartorial ingenuity. The schedule will include an analysis of artwork and artistic projects, partial film screenings, review of relevant literature, conversations with guest speakers, and a look at designers, artists, journalists, curators, photographers, and academics who explore the fashion system through a critical lens. Participants will leave the workshop with a  syllabus equipping them with tools to understand how marginalized communities harness fashion to negotiate the complexities of power and visibility (and the lack thereof), proposing substantive solutions for a more just fashion system.

Scholars Kimberly Jenkins and Jonathan Michael Square will lead the workshop. Jonathan Square is a writer and professor of history at Harvard University, specializing in fashion and visual culture in the African Diaspora. Kimberly Jenkins is a visiting assistant professor of fashion history and theory at Pratt Institute and part-time lecturer at Parsons School of Design. Kimberly specializes in the sociocultural and historical influences behind why we wear what we wear, specifically addressing how politics, psychology, race and gender shapes the way we ‘fashion’ our identity.

The workshop will include guest speaker Elizabeth Way. Elizabeth Way is an assistant curator at the Museum at FIT where she was instrumental in curating and organizing the recent Black Fashion Designers exhibition and symposium. She has also published a study of African American dressmakers Elizabeth Keckley and Ann Lowe for Fashion Theory.

Buy tickets/get more info now