Dr Kevin Almond
- Position: Associate Professor
- Email: K.Almond@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 2315
- Website: ORCID
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
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