DAE Lecture Series - Floriane MISSLIN

"March 3rd 2022, DAE Lecture Series welcomed Floriane MISSLIN for 'Diagramming Fluidity, Visualising Sociology, Demystifying Fashion'.
‘Visual sociology is not a sociology of the visual, but a sociology through the visual, or the material, the emotional, the sensory - beyond academic texts. I do visual sociology about fashion and gender. Fashion is not perceived as a relevant academic research subject because it is seen as (1) a super-capitalistic system and (2) a feminised discipline. Yet fashion represents an exploitative system that maintains a glamorous myth around itself. Research on fashion looks closely at how this industry works to demystify it. My own research investigates how womenswear and menswear remain two prevalent categories in the production of clothing, and more specifically, how fashion photography seems to be an important site of negotiation to challenge these categories. With my practice, I develop visual and participatory research methods to explore how photographers, art directors, or fashion editors can queer the production of fashion photography, or might be refrained from it. I do sociology through images, diagrams, and mood boards.’ - Floriane Misslin
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