The Sixth Fashion Forward Symposium
THE FASHIONED BODY:
Fashion, Dress, and Physique
Fashion Forward presents the next installment of its symposium series featuring experts studying the fashioned body, exploring how fashion, dress, and physique interrelate.
Time:
May 23rd, 2021
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
Platform:
Zoom (RSVP by email)
info@fashionforward.io
Suggested Donation:
$15
Fashion Forward presents the next installment of its symposium series featuring experts studying the fashioned body, exploring how fashion, dress, and physique interrelate.
Our Speakers
WRITER, RESEARCHER, PHILOSOPHER
Dr. Michael Spicher works as a writer, researcher, editor, and philosopher, mainly focused on art and aesthetics. He has published articles on beauty, taste, aesthetic experience, and state support of the arts. He teaches at Boston Architectural College and Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and previously taught at University of South Carolina and Boston University. Along with his own writing projects, he is an editor for the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (published by MIT Press) as well as the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Committed to advocating and educating for the value of esthetics, he founded the Aesthetics Research Lab.
TRANS AUTHOR, CLASSICIST, ENTREPRENEUR
Finnegan Shepard is a trans author, classicist, and entrepreneur with 1/3 of a PhD in philosophy from the University of Cambridge and 3/4s of an MFA in fiction from the University of New Mexico. He caught the bug for the start-up world and left academia for the final time in mid-2018 to (attempt to) cofound an online philosophy platform. He has since worked on numerous start-ups while writing a novella and a short story collection, founding Both&, and is launching Limns, a monthly newsletter in collaboration with artist Mischa de Stroumillo in early 2021. Find out more at www.finneganshepard.com, and follow him on Instagram @finneganshepard.
RESEARCHER, LECTURER, MULTI-MEDIA ARTIST
Zara Korutz is an American who is a London based Lecturer, host of Unbiased Label podcast, and PhD Researcher examining fashion and culture. With 10+ years in the advertising industry as a consultant, multi-media strategist, and content creator, She worked for U.S. media companies The Washington Post, Lee Enterprises, Sinclair Broadcast Group and OUTFRONT Media.
Editorially, Zara has written for Fashion Unfiltered and was a contributing editor for Fashion Washington. As a beauty artist and fashion stylist for 15+ years, her work has been seen in Vogue Italia, The Washington Post, CNN-Anderson Cooper 360, Meet the Press, Good Morning America, Good Day New York and Good Day DC.