The UC Fashion Working Group is organized by graduate students from four UC campuses with a shared interest in Critical Fashion Studies, an interdisciplinary academic field largely absent across UC syllabi. Initially responding to UCHRI’s overall thematic of “Refuge and Refusal,” the working group has spent a year studying the politics of fashion, developing a critical overview of fashion’s numerous and often conflicting political frameworks. Now entering its second phase, the UC Fashion Working Group is working towards a public-facing digital humanities project to benefit the entire UC community as well as a global community of fashion thinkers and practitioners.

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