Elizabeth Kutesko
elizabeth@elizabethkutesko.com
About
I am a fashion historian, with a particular interest in Latin American bodily practices and the intersection between dress, cultural identity, representation and power.
My research explores fashion as a transnational form of modernity, which ties together geography – telling stories of the land; nationality – telling stories of the nation; and identity – telling stories of the self.
My book is titled Fashioning Brazil: Globalization and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic (Bloomsbury, 2018) and I have published articles in ZoneModa, Fashion Theory and Photoworks.
I am currently working on a new book Fashion and the Devil’s Railway: Dress, Temporality and Modernities in the Brazilian Amazon and a project for Fashion Interpretations.
Publications
Fashioning Brazil: Globalization and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Articles
Passing to Be Noticed, 2020
Entering the Contact Zone, 2019
Fashioning Brazil, 2016
Fashioning Brazil / National Identity and the Politics of Globalization, 2015
Brazilian Women’s Lycra Clothing, 2015
Moroccan Fashion Designers, 2014
Brazilian Fashion Designers, 2014
Adidas Shows the Changing Face of Brazil, 2014
21st-Century Moroccan Women’s Dress, 2014
Problems and Tensions / The Sapeurs, 2013
Projects
Fashion Interpretations, 2020
Fashion, Status, Masculinity, 2019
Mundo Latinx, 2019
Short Courses
Central Saint Martins:
History of Fashion Photography
The Courtauld Institute of Art:
The Making of Modern Brazil 1920–60 /
Dress, Visual Culture, Nation
Teaching
The Courtauld Institute of Art
NYU London
Richmond International University
Royal College of Art
Winchester School of Art
Reviews
Exhibitions:
Textile as Resistance, 2019
T-shirt / Cult – Culture – Subversion, 2018
You Say You Want a Revolution, 2017
Made in Mexico, 2015
Horst, Steichen & Bourdin, 2015
Publications:
Black Women Slaves Who Nourished a Nation, 2020
Fashioning Identity / Status Ambivalence, 2017
PhD
Fashioning Brazil: Globalisation and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic, 2016
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