Culture Costume and Dress

5-7th May 2021 (CLOSED)

Female empowerment

Daphna Bahat
Sex and the City vs Girls: The power (and weakness) of NOTHINGNESS in Generation Y’s fashion trends

Irina Parreira, Michele Santos and Maria João Pereira Neto
A Reflection, Through Female Testimonies, on the Fashion and Empowerment of Women
in the Western World and in Portugal in the 1970s and 1980s

Presentation slides (PDF)

Belinda Naylor
Ageing and Aesthetics: How older women are reclaiming power through fashion