University expert on fashion and age Professor Julia Twigg was a keynote speaker at a recent high profile New York symposium on fashion and physique.
Held appropriately in the Garment District of the city, the symposium was broadcast live and attracted an audience of nearly 300 from the design, commercial and academic communities.
The event considered the complex history of what constitutes the ‘ideal’ body in fashion by exploring the connection between fashion and physique.
Professor Twigg, of the University’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, analysed the significance of age as a cultural and a physiological phenomenon, drawing on her extensive research.
The symposium was organised to accompany an exhibition entitled The Body: Fashion and Physique. This is due to run until 5 May at New York’s The Museum at FIT, which is linked to the Fashion Institute of Technology, part of New York University (NYU).
Julia Twigg is Professor of Social Policy and Sociology. Over the last decade she has been engaged in a series of research projects exploring the role of dress in the constitution of age.