Fashion is an economic and social force, a culture industry, a global powerhouse, a political statement. Fashion can express freedom or constriction; it can repress or liberate the body. WSQ Fashion investigates this inherently gendered issue and explores how it ignites passions, produces colossal waste, demands ruthless exclusion, and inspires hysterical devotion.
Eugenia Paulicelli is a professor at Queens College and is a member of the doctoral faculty in the comparative literature and women’s studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Elizabeth Wissinger is associate professor of sociology, social services, and human services at Borough of Manhattan Community College.
