Culture Costume and Dress

5-7th June 2019 (CLOSED)

Susan Vincent

Department of History of Art, University of York

Susan is a Research Associate at the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (CREMS) at the University of York. Originally researching in early modernity, over the years she has expanded her interests to adornment in other periods. Her work now ranges widely over dress practices from the sixteenth century to the present day. Susan’s publications include Dressing the Elite: Clothes in Early Modern England (2003), The Anatomy of Fashion: Dressing the Body from the Renaissance to Today (2009), Hair: An Illustrated History (2018), and, as general editor, Bloomsbury’s six-volume publication, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion (2017).