Dress and Emotion | Parsons The New School for Design

Please join us for the launch of Dress & Emotion, a research project led by Fiona Dieffenbacher, Assistant Professor of Fashion, along with Lucy Jones and Zhi Wei Hiu, Research Assistants. Funded by Parsons The New School for Design (http://www.newschool.edu/parsons) Dress & Emotion seeks to explore the emotional and sensory act of dressing. The work seeks to investigate themes of body image, identity/self-curation, representation and the messaging of dress: How do we see ourselves? What comes first? The Body, the image we seek to create or does one create the other? Are we dressing a body image that is real or imagined? Do we see dress as a uniform, persona, provocation or protection Parsons The New School for Design Location: Theresa Lang Community and Student Center Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 Conversation: 5:30-6:30 pm | Launch event: 7:00 – 9:00 pm