Conceptualizing Fashion in Everyday Lives

Cheryl Buckley is Professor of Design History at Northumbria University in the UK. Her research deals with the history of design in the twentieth century including fashion, ceramics, interiors and architecture including Designing Modern Britain (Reaktion, 2007), Fashioning the Feminine, Representation and Women's Fashion from the fin de siècle to the Present Day (I.B. Tauris, 2002), and Potters and Paintresses. Women Designers in the British Pottery Industry 1870–1959 (The Women's Press, 1991). She has a particular expertise in design history and gender including an essay that first appeared in Design Issues in Fall 1986. She is Visiting Professor in Design History for the MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design at Parsons, The New School for Design/Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, and has recently been appointed Editorial Chair of the Journal of Design History.

Hazel Clark is Research Chair of Fashion at Parsons the New School for Design, New York, where she recently initiated the MA in Fashion Studies, and MA in Design Studies. She is a design historian and theorist with a specialist interest in fashion, textiles, and design and cultural identity, and she has worked internationally. Currently, she is Visiting Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Northumbria, UK. Her publications include The Cheongsam (2000), and the co-edited Old Clothes, New Looks: Second Hand Fashion (2005), The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, and Globalization (2009), Design Studies: A Reader (2009), and numerous articles and book chapters.