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Dr. Kat Sark

A podcast dedicated to Fashion, Design, Culture, Sustainability, Media, and Technology

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Episode 20 – Copenhagen Fashion Week with Johanne...

Chic ·

2020/08/15

The 20th episode was recorded on location at Copenhagen Fashion Week in August 2020. I met with two activists who are making the fashion industry better every day. Johanne Stenstrup is an entrepreneur, blogger, podcaster, and the co-author of a new book, out in Danish, called Dress Better (Klæd dig Bedre), co-authored with my colleague and friend Else Skjold – and they had a lovely book launch together during fashion week. Johanne host of a Danish podcast on fashion sustainability, called “Better

00:21:56

Episode 19 – Josephine Amalie Grigoriou and Face Masks

Chic ·

2020/08/07

The 19th episode was recorded in Odense, the birthplace of the fairy-tales author Hans Christian Andersen in central Denmark. I met with one of my students, Josephine Amalie Grigoriou, who has been working as a professional organic hairstylist since 2013, and a professional make-up artist and a beauty consultant since 2016. She has worked on different musicals, galas, photo shoots, weddings, as well as working with the Odense Teater, TedX Odense and many other cultural events. In 2018, she decided

00:36:17

Episode 18 – Else Skjold and Sustainable Fashion...

Chic ·

2020/08/05

The 18th episode was recorded in Copenhagen in July 2020 with my dear friend and colleague Else Skjold, who is now the Assistant Professor in Design and Sustainability, and as of now also the Head of the Fashion Program, at the Royal Academy (KADK) in Copenhagen. Else and I met last summer, when she was still teaching fashion sustainability at the Design School in Kolding, in Southern Denmark, but since starting at the Royal Academy, she made sustainability the core of their fashion education and is

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Episode 17 – madison moore and Fabulousness

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2020/07/15

The 17th episode was recorded remotely with the fabulous madison moore, who is an artist-scholar and the author of Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric (2018). Madison is also a DJ who performs at queer underground parties around the world, and Assistant Professor of Queer Studies in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He currently teaches courses on pop culture (for example, a course on Beyoncé and Queer

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Episode 16 – Jonathan M. Square on Fashion and Slavery

Chic ·

2020/07/07

The 16th episode was recorded remotely with Jonathan M. Square, who is a writer, curator, and historian specializing in fashion and visual culture of the African Diaspora, and who is currently teaching at Harvard University. He has written for Fashionista, Fashion Studies Journal, the International Journal of Fashion Studies, and many others. A proponent in the power of social media as a platform for radical pedagogy, he founded and runs the digital humanities project Fashioning the Self in Slavery

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Episode 15 – Suzi Webster and Aaron Nelson-Moody on...

Chic ·

2020/06/16

The 15th episode was recorded remotely with my friend and colleague Suzi Webster. She is a Vancouver-based multimedia artist, an innovator in the field of fashion and technology, and currently teaches fashion and art at Langhara College in Vancouver. Her work has been exhibited internationally at “Technothreads” at the Science Gallery in Dublin; “Codelive” in Vancouver; the Modemuseum in Hasseldt Belgium, the Discovery Museum in Newcastle and many more. Some of her works are part of the permanent

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Episode 14 – Toby Slade on Decolonizing Fashion

Chic ·

2020/06/04

The 14th episode was recorded remotely with Toby Slade, who is the Associate Professor of Fashion at the School of Design at the University of Technology in Sydney Australia. Toby specializes in Japanese fashion and culture, and has taught fashion and art in Japan for over 16 years. This past March, Toby returned to Sydney Australia to decolonize their fashion program at UT, just a week before the lock down started due to the COVID-19 pandemic. His 2009 book, Japanese Fashion: A Cultural History was

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Episode 13 – Sandra Niessen on Decolonizing Fashion

Chic ·

2020/05/08

The 13th episode was recorded remotely with Sandra Niessen, who is the first fashion scholar to point out the need for decolonizing fashion. She is an independent researcher, scholar, and organizer based in the Netherlands, and a member of the Research Collective for Decolonizing Fashion (RCDF) that was established in 2012 to disrupt persistent Eurocentric and ethnocentric underpinnings of dominant fashion discourse. I reached out to Sandra last fall, when I was organizing my workshops on

00:36:23

Episode 12 – Erica de Greef on Decolonizing Fashion

Chic ·

2020/05/01

The 12th episode was recorded remotely with Erica de Greef, who is the co-founder of AFRI – African Fashion Research Institute. She is also the Curator at Large of Fashion at Zeitz MOCAA Art Museum in Cape Town, South Africa. We recently connected virtually over our common research and network-building work that aims to decolonize fashion studies. Erica is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Research Collective for Decolonizing Fashion (RCDF) based in the Netherlands, and I wanted to know

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Episode 11 – Julia Petrov at the Royal Alberta Museum

Chic ·

2020/04/21

The 11th episode was also recorded remotely. I reached out to Julia Petrov, who is the Curator of Daily Life and Leisure at the Royal Alberta Museum (RAM) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We met at the 2018 Canadian Fashion Symposium that I organized in Edmonton, when she hosted a tour of the Royal Alberta Museum’s fashion collection for us, and prepared a special presentation highlighting some amazing pieces in their collection. We’ve also collaborated on a forthcoming volume I edited on Ethical

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Episode 10 – Frederik Larsen on Making Copenhagen...

Chic ·

2020/04/05

The 10th episode was the first one to be recorded remotely because of the corona virus outbreak. Since relocating to Denmark last year, I have been travelling a lot between Copenhagen, Aarhus, Kolding, Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, and other places to build the European Fashion Scholars Network that will allow us to bring together scholarly expertise that enables more effective collaborations, as well as research and knowledge mobilization. While this time of social distancing and isolation is allowing

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Episode 9 – Gundula Wolter and the German Fashion and...

Chic ·

2020/03/27

The 9th episode was also recorded in Berlin, where I met with Gundula Wolter, the founder of the German Network for Fashion and Textiles (Netzwerk Mode Textil). We first met in Berlin years ago, when I was promoting my co-authored book, Berliner Chic (2011), and researching my dissertation, and we were originally connected online by a common friend, Claus Jahnke, a collector of Berlin and Viennese clothing and accessories in Vancouver. As you will hear from our conversation, the network that Gundula

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Episode 8 – Christine Waidenschlager and Fashion in...

Chic ·

2020/03/14

The 8th episode was recorded in Berlin, where I met with the former fashion curator of the Decorative Arts Museum, Christine Waidenschlager. She recently retired from her long career of establishing a fashion museum in Berlin. We first met in 2005, when I started researching my co-authored book Berliner Chic: A Locational History of Berlin Fashion (2011), and we have kept in touch over the years, while I continued to check up on the fashion and cultural developments in Berlin. I wanted to record

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Episode 7 – Herning Textile Industry

Chic ·

2020/03/01

The 7th episode was recorded on a trip to Herning, the textile hub in central Jutland, in Denmark. Together with some of my students from my Fashion Theory and Fashion History courses at SDU, we got a special tour of the Textile Museum in Herning. That same day, we also got to see the Via Design School with state-of-the-art textile, fashion, graphic, and furniture design labs, talk to some of the teachers and students there, and watch some of their design pieces come into being. We then made a

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Episode 6 – Social Design and Fashion Mediation...

Chic ·

2020/02/18

The 6th episode was also recorded at the University of Southern Denmark, where my colleagues Hans Christian Jensen and Toke Riis Ebbesen from the Department of Design and Communication organized an open seminar on “Social Design and Fashion Mediation” as part of the Research Program in Design Culture. They invited two guest speakers: Synne Skjulstad, from Olso University in Norway, who gave a presentation on “Fashion Media: Memes and Trolling in the Age of Instagram,” and Lisbeth Klastrup, from the

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Episode 5 – Sustainability Paradox

Chic ·

2020/02/11

The 5th episode was recorded at the University of Southern Denmark, where I currently teach Fashion Studies, in the Department of Design and Communications. I was invited by Vinnie Hansen, the Chairwoman of HAU – the Network Association for Design Studies – to present a talk on fashion and sustainability, to both the association members – the future generation of professionals in Design Studies in Denmark – and the general public, at their annual General Assembly Meeting in 2019. I focused my

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Episode 4 – Fashion Inclusivity and the Next...

Chic ·

2020/02/02

The 4th episode was also recorded in Toronto, at the sixth annual Canadian Fashion Symposium, that I organize once a year, hosted by the School of Fashion at Ryerson University. First, you will hear a panel recorded at the Symposium, organized by several grad students from the Ryerson Fashion MA program, entitled, “Fashioning Inclusivity: Frontiers of Fashion Diversity” (with Johnathan Clancy, Ryan Chantree, and Jason Cyrus). A few weeks after their panel, we recorded an interview with these very

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Episode 3 – 6th Annual Canadian Fashion Symposium and...

Chic ·

2019/09/27

The third episode was recorded in Toronto, Canada, in September 2019, where I organized the sixth annual Canadian Fashion Symposium. Every year, I find a hosting institution (usually a museum that has a fashion or a textile collection, or a fashion school or university in Canada – and I try to alternate the Eastern and Western parts of the country). Collaboratively, I organize the annual Symposium that is meant to bring together fashion scholars, curators, practitioners, and fashion professionals to

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Episode 1 – Sustainable Fashion panel at the Victoria...

Chic ·

2019/08/23

For the first episode, I was invited to moderate a discussion panel on Sustainable Fashion at the first Victoria Eco Fashion Week, that took place in April 2019 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The panelists included Jess Montgomery,who is the founder of Think the World Differently, a non-profit organization based in Vancouver that offers educational workshops on the environmental impacts of the global clothing industry. Jess empowers participants to embrace sustainable alternatives, and

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Episode 2 – Else Skjold and Kate Fletcher at...

Chic ·

2019/08/20

For the second episode, I went to Copenhagen and met with Else Skjold, who is an Associate Professor of Design and Sustainability at the Design School in Kolding, and who organized an exhibition and presentation of the graduation projects of four design schools in Denmark as part of Copenhagen Fashion Week. The two pop-up exhibitions “Fashion Tech” and “Young Sustainable Talents” took place at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, which this summer also hosts the V&A “Fashioned from Nature”

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