Critical Fashion Studies International Conference

The University of Melbourne

February 2020

The aim of this conference was to build academic research and industry networks to address a range of themes relevant to the future of fashion, including: sustainable and ethical fashion production and consumption; fashion start-ups and economic sustainability; corporate models of social responsibility and transparency; "slow" fashion and new economies of value; critical femininities and the feminization of fashion production and consumption; fashion entrepreneurs in South-East Asia and the Pacific; and local and global labour practices.

Hosted by the Critical Fashion Studies research collective in the School of Culture and Communication, at the University of Melbourne, the conference included keynote lectures from established international scholars and fashion industry panels, as well as academic papers from postgraduate students, early career researchers, and scholars working on fashion from a range of disciplines and methodologies.