Dr Kevin Almond

Profile

I have held various appointments in the fashion industry and academia. I have published widely and research interests include: creative pattern cutting, clothing/fashion dichotomies, sculptural thinking in fashion, fashion as masquerade.

Research areas

• suffering in fashion: Links that expose issues in the production of garments and their appropriation as fashionable items
• body shaping and the presentation of the fashionable ideal of self
• how fashion has mirrored change in UK society
• bespoke tailoring: the luxury and heritage we can afford
• fashion in clubland: the safe space for glamour
• expression and repression: the presentation of self
• creative pattern cutting
• fashion and obesity
• fashion/clothing dichotomies
• 1940s fashion
• the creative economy and aesthetic market place
• sculptural thinking in fashion

Responsibilities

• Leader of Textiles and Fashion Research Group

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Qualifications

• PhD
• MDes (RCA)
• BA (Hons)
• PG Cert
• FHEA

Professional memberships

• Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
• Member of Steering Committee Association of Fashion and Textile Courses
• Member, The Northern Society of Costume and Textiles
• Member, Association of Suppliers to the British Clothing Industry
• Member, The British Fashion Council Colleges Forum
• Nominated Trustee of The Costume Society – 2013 - 2016
• Member of Advisory Board Journal of Dress History

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