Acknowledgements

Thank you to the peer reviewers and editors of Fashion Studies for the thoughtful and detailed feedback on previous versions of this essay.

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Author Biography

 
 
 
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Mark Joseph O’Connell

TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

 

Mark Joseph O’Connell holds a BA from OCADU and an MA Fashion at Toronto Metropolitan University, where he completed a Major Research Project entitled “Moral Fibre: Integrating Ethics and Sustainability into Fashion Curriculum” (June 2016).

Mark O’Connell is a professor of fashion studies at Seneca College, Toronto, Canada. His chapter “Clandestina: An Ethnographic Study of Economic Policy and Colonial Hegemonies Encoded in the Consumption of Used Garments” will be included in the forthcoming publication Ethical Fashion and Empowerment (McGill University Press, 2020). Prior to teaching, Mark worked as a designer both in-house at M.A.C Cosmetics and for his own clothing line, Modular Menswear. Mark is also concurrently pursuing a PhD in Politics and Policy within the Communication and Culture faculty offered jointly at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University. His research explores the potential for social justice reforms in transnational fashion production and supply chains.

Article Citations

MLA: O’Connell, Mark Joseph. “Sine Qua Non: An Exploration of a ‘Catholic Imagination’ at the Met.” Fashion Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.38055/FS020110.

APA: O’Connell, M. J. (2019). Sine Qua Non: An Exploration of a “Catholic Imagination” at the Met. Fashion Studies, 2(1), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.38055/FS020110.

Chicago: O’Connell, Mark Joseph. “Sine Qua Non: An Exploration of a ‘Catholic Imagination’ at the Met.” Fashion Studies 2, no. 1 (2019): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.38055/FS020110.

 

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