Author Biography

Caroline Evans is Professor of Fashion History and Theory at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

She is the author of The Mechanical Smile: Modernism and the First Fashion Shows in France and America, 1900–1929 (2013) and Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness (2003), among many other publications. Current research projects attend to the idea of “fashion gesture”; a media archaeological approach to fashion history via film; and an exploration of the relations between technologies of the body and of pattern-cutting.

Article Citations

MLA: Evans, Caroline. “Fashion Film: The Grain of the Past in the Present.” [Guest Lecture — Toronto Metropolitan University]. Fashion Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.38055/fs020112.

APA: Evans, C. (2019). Fashion Film: The Grain of the Past in the Present. [Guest Lecture — Toronto Metropolitan University]. Fashion Studies, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.38055/FS020112

Chicago: Evans, Caroline. “Fashion Film: The Grain of the Past in the Present.” [Guest Lecture — Toronto Metropolitan University]. Fashion Studies 2, no. 1 (2019): https://doi.org/10.38055/FS020112.