elizabeth@elizabethkutesko.com

A Photographic Fragment of Transnational Fashion © Instituto Moreira Salles

Passing © Christopher Smith

Fashion and the Devil’s Railroad © Museu Paulista

Fashion Interpretations © Elizabeth Kutesko

Fashioning Brazil © Mari Stockler

A Photographic Fragment of Transnational Fashion © Instituto Moreira Salles

Fashioning Brazil © Marcio Scavone

Fashioning Brazil © Instituto Moreira Salles

About

I am a cultural historian, with a particular interest in Latin American bodily practices and the intersection between dress, 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 Dune, Archivist Addendum, ZoneModa, Fashion Theory and Photoworks.

I lead the MA in Fashion Critical Studies and the BA in Fashion History & Theory at Central Saint Martins.