[ecrea] Fashion + Street Culture Conference at Yale

>The Urban Catwalk: Fashion and Street Culture, April 23 2011 | Yale 
>University |  New Haven, Connecticut
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>300 word abstracts and bios due by: October 15th, 2010
>
>Please email all questions and abstracts to madison moore, 
>(madison.moore /at/ yale.edu)
>
>What is street style, and what is the relationship between style, 
>"the street," and popular culture? How have the Internet, digital 
>cameras and other technologies impacted how we understand the way we 
>dress? How old is street style, and why do so many people care about 
>the way other people dress? In what ways does street style engage 
>with broader issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality?
>
>The Urban Catwalk: Fashion and Street Culture, a one-day symposium 
>at Yale University, aims to investigate and openly discuss the 
>relationships between street style and identity. We are interested 
>in papers that approach street style from a contemporary lens, but 
>also encourage papers with more of an historical perspective.
>
>Every character in a work of fiction tells a story, and more often 
>than not, the clothes they wear are as crucial to their 
>personalities and interests as to their internal development in the 
>plot. Whether high end or mass market, fashion is a daily 
>performance of identities and subjectivities. Street fashion tells a 
>personal narrative about one's dreams, fantasies, fears and 
>struggles. From Marie Antoinette to Lady Gaga, and from Napoleon 
>Bonaparte to Prince, fashion is used as an instrument of rebellion 
>and commentary on social norms.
>
>Over the course of a single day, The Urban Catwalk will partner 20 
>minute academic presentations from a range of disciplines. We are 
>committed to a conference that blends the intellectual with an ear 
>to the ground. In this way, we will hold a panel discussion with 
>editors from a number of major fashion publications about how they 
>understand the intellectual work street style does. We close the 
>conference with a special street style fashion show at Artspace 
>Gallery in Downtown New Haven, where real-people models will 
>showcase their street style.
>
>We solicit rigorous, 20-minute presentations treating various 
>aspects of street fashion.
>
>Topics may include:
>
>- Street style and Contemporary art
>- Dandies
>- The flaneur
>- Style blogs and the Internet
>- Urban versus suburban style
>- Hipsters and neo-bohemia
>- Goth, punk, and skate culture
>- Street style and hip hop culture
>- Fashion magazines and the street
>- Male androgyny; men in high heels
>- Street style in media
>- How to figure out a style persona; rules and boundaries
>- Lady Gaga, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Andre J., and other pop icons
>- Japanese street fashion
>- Street style in literature
>- LGBTQ identity and street style
>- Models
>- Street style in the 19th century
>- Fashion designers
>- Ready-to-wear
>- Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, and trend spotters
>- Vogueing, ball culture
>- Sex and the City and street style
>

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