elizabeth@elizabethkutesko.com

Urban scene in São Paolo, woman crossing the road in a striped dress holding a child and a man in a black suit with a white shirt and tie. Elizabeth Kutesko

Woman in a colourful dress and beaded necklace looking at the camera Elizabeth Kutesko

Four unnamed workers on the Madeira-Mamoré railway in Brazil, standing outside Elizabeth Kutesko

Magazine cover of archivist addendum titled Fashion Interpretations with texts by various authors Elizabeth Kutesko

Woman dancing in jeans and white top at night Elizabeth Kutesko

Magazine spread with text and images of São Paolo Elizabeth Kutesko

Woman in city wearing a sleeveless knitted wool top Elizabeth Kutesko

Two fashionable Brazilian women standing in a park in Rio de Janeiro Elizabeth Kutesko

Man standing in healed boots, holding a bag, and staring at the camera Elizabeth Kutesko

Woman dancing in white jeans and pink top with other women at night Elizabeth Kutesko

Two unnamed workers on the Madeira-Mamoré railway in Brazil, standing outside Elizabeth Kutesko

A group of women in São Paolo photographed indoors wearing the Yukata Elizabeth Kutesko

Man in working clothes holding a basket of fruit and apple in right hand Elizabeth Kutesko

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 Fashion Histories and Theories and the BA Fashion Histories and Theories at Central Saint Martins.