Knowledge Commons | Fashion Studies | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/fashion-studies/ Activity feed for the group, Fashion Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:37:34 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 90a0e146ecdd1ba8c0dd9afedf32d7c8 Teresa Cutler-Broyles created the doc Vampires and Fashion Book - send us your chapter proposals! in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1913744/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:04:15 -0400 30c7fa0b516c1ebdccbc15a763aa82df Teresa Cutler-Broyles started the topic Vampires and Fashion CFP - send us your chapter proposals! in the forum Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/fashion-studies/forum/topic/vampires-and-fashion-cfp-send-us-your-chapter-proposals-2/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:01:53 -0400 Vampires and Fashion

For the last 100 years, from Nosferatu to Nosferatu, vampires have graced screens large and small, dressed in clothing that has become part and parcel of their appeal. From drab gray and black German frock coats to full formal tuxes, from diaphanous gowns to sleek, form-hugging dresses, from haute couture to jeans and leather…[Read more]

]]> d5c578e23538fe9acec4e9a2be63ac3f Sonia D. Andras deposited Sonia D. Andras - Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue (Conference Presentation, 2023, Audio Only) in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897551/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 03:00:45 -0400 Presentation at the "Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts/Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă" Conference.
This paper explores Romanian women’s influence on US fashion, as representatives of European artistic, cultural and social elites and as genuine Parisiennes. This study trea…[Read more]

]]> 0 a98fec8378aa26cc255cbe81562261ab Sonia D. Andras deposited Sonia D. Andras - Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue (Conference Presentation, 2023) in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897240/ Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Presentation of the paper "Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue" from 15 June 2023 at the ‪@EDERAPCE‬ Conference Titled "Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts/Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă" [See details: https://eder…[Read more]

]]> 0 eeb99a8c64da8be06f17697ae9fb7563 Sonia D. Andras deposited Roberta at the Capitol and Roxy: Fashion, Cinema, and Modernity in Interwar Bucharest in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882922/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:01:48 -0400 This paper follows the distribution, reception, and influence of Hollywood productions, using the particular case of the movie Roberta, starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, and Ginger Rogers. It follows all stages from preparation, production, dissemination, and critique, and how they were seen from and reacted to in interwar Bucharest. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a59015d668f53c662bef68023cf6409 Sonia D. Andras deposited Re-MODELARE: Spre o reînnoire a industriei modei in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874552/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 03:00:44 -0500 Industria modei, sub toate aspectele sale, a fost lovita și continuă să sufere de pe urma pandemiei de Covid-19, ca parte integrantă a economiei mondiale.

]]> 0 b8c72f4fd40ff93b78da6e5196ff8f42 Sonia D. Andras deposited Re-Fashioning: Towards a Renewed Fashion Industry in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874551/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 03:00:44 -0500 The fashion industry, in all its aspects, has been hit and continues to suffer due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as an integral part of global economy.

]]> 0 446b1c9d3a324139aeda8392005dad8b Sonia D. Andras deposited Modă și frumusețe. Lucrări teoretice de autor in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874548/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 03:00:26 -0500 Contribuția mea inovativă constă în identificarea și analiza lucrărilor internaționale de modă și frumusețe, care au fost traduse în limba română. Traducătorii în limba română vor fi studiați din perspectiva temelor abordate în acest domeniu, limbilor din care au tradus, a autorilor traduși, intervalului dintre original și traducere (sincroniz…[Read more]

]]> 0 0f9fdffe146e0354498f10245c588234 Sonia D. Andras deposited Garçonne, but Make Her Flapper. Using American Femininity Models to Re-Fashion the Romanian ‘Modern Girl’ in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869850/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:02:39 -0500 This chapter examines the reception of the American ‘flapper’ model and how it was interpreted and translated into the interwar Romanian fashion and beauty discourse, into the 1920s model termed as the ‘modern girl’, as opposed to the ‘new woman’ of the 1930s. It follows the evolution of 1920s styles, including Jazz and Hollywood cultures, J…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d7d44d8c5f7d941c4941d7fa58563c3 Sonia D. Andras deposited Interwar Romanian Fashion and Beauty in American Vogue in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866204/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 03:00:37 -0500 This paper explores Romanian women’s influence on US fashion as representatives of European artistic, cultural, and social elites and as genuine Parisiennes. This study treats the Parisienne model as a symbolic marker of elegance driven by French, namely Parisian, aesthetic philosophies, and technical prowess. In this sense, Romanian women f…[Read more]

]]> 0 e974d472ff372527c367fd936baefa5e Sonia D. Andras deposited Selling Glamour: Marketing Western Women's Fashion in Interwar Bucharest in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848170/ Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:25:17 -0400 This paper explores the dynamics of women’s fashion marketing in advertisements and promotional materials related to Western ideas, materials or products. It will analyse published promotional visual and written texts in the interwar Bucharest press, with local or national distribution. The aim is to ascertain the degree and nature of Western w…[Read more]

]]> 0 79e96aff6702a04c6f48f85690780e3d Sonia D. Andras deposited Allo, allo, ici le Bucharest du pedigree! The nationalization of women’s fashion in interwar Bucharest (OA) in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843392/ Wed, 03 May 2023 02:27:05 -0400 The newly formed Greater Romania engaged in a process of modernization, with Bucharest as its flagship metropolis, striving to be recognized internationally and reach economic stability. Women’s fashion became a marker in substantiating Romania’s self-assertion as a modern state, with great emphasis on creating a viable textile industry. This occ…[Read more]

]]> 0 a726030dcd9951b52ea0ed8381673437 Sonia D. Andras deposited Crafting Illusions: Fashion as a Means of Decoding Social and Cultural History in Interwar Bucharest (OA) in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843388/ Wed, 03 May 2023 02:26:44 -0400 This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the Little Paris. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what type of role…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e6d1541f20977976c76f19733b1967f Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion (OA) in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843382/ Wed, 03 May 2023 02:25:58 -0400 This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]

]]> 0 9dbd890f40abb287717b7b9e78a8f592 Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashion, Dress, Costume: a Proposed Terminological Clarification in the Historical Research of Women’s Clothing in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843373/ Wed, 03 May 2023 02:25:10 -0400 This paper delineates the conceptual variations between the notions ‘fashion’, ‘dress’ and ‘costume’ in English-language texts on women’s garment histories using relevant examples from interwar Romanian periodicals. The aim is to offer a more precise formulation, as these three terms have largely been used interchangeably. This paper is built on a…[Read more]

]]> 0 a99c5efca53fbc4cd7b2f8dbd23a373d Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashion, Cinema, and German-American Propaganda in 1930s Bucharest in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843369/ Wed, 03 May 2023 02:24:33 -0400 This paper explores how Bucharest’s cinema-going public perceived the Nazi influence on Hollywood in the 1930s. The aim is to identify how Nazi propaganda was disseminated and consumed in interwar Bucharest and its similarities to the idea of glamour, relevant both to fashion and cinema. Considering the links between Goebbels’ propaganda mac…[Read more]

]]> 0 0077d1bf3caad0b2318d2f7d160ffaf4 Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashioning simultaneous migrations: Sonia Delaunay and inter-war Romanian connections in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827372/ Thu, 22 Dec 2022 02:25:35 -0500 This article analyses the connections between the worlds of fine art and fashion through the complex interconnections between the Parisian-Eastern European creative exile. It follows the common threads between Ukrainian-Jewish artist and fashion designer Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) and prominent inter-war Parisian Romanians: namely, Tristan T…[Read more]

]]> 0 85c24b04ed014aa7af6b895ff671c183 Sonia D. Andras deposited Perfecțiune și bun gust: Redefinirea identității feminine din Bucureștiul interbelic prin modă și frumusețe in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1825253/ Tue, 06 Dec 2022 02:24:01 -0500 Perfection And Good Taste: Redefining Feminine Identities in Interwar Bucharest Through Fashion and Beauty || This paper explores gender realities in interwar Bucharest through the lens of fashion and beauty. The aim is to evaluate the impact of advice literature on women in reinventing feminine identity and the general effect of these evolutions…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ba8f6a8a791fd82ddb9e8b41d0173a4 Sonia D. Andras deposited Call for Book Chapters: Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World. Interlaced National Symbols in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1789024/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 02:24:26 -0400 Chapter Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 December 2022
Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World. Interlaced National Symbols
Book edited by Dr. Sonia D. Andraş (The “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania)

As Vogue Paris, the only edition containing a city name, became Vogue France, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 848238dc333dbecdb83dadf72af6c0dd Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion Preprint PDF in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775379/ Tue, 22 Mar 2022 02:24:09 -0400 This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]

]]> 0 96ff429df720c145279b33f098c84658 Sonia D. Andras deposited De la cosmetologie la cosmiatrie: Aurel Voina și manipularea istoriei personale in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772800/ Wed, 23 Feb 2022 02:24:52 -0500 This paper explores the methodological and discursive transition in Aurel Voina’s theoretical conceptualisation of cosmetic science. The primary focus is the rewriting of personal and professional identity, assessing how Aurel Voina negotiated his conceptual and practical expertise from his role as eugenics ideologue and policy maker in the i…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e27411655b3ac8a29a1c4c7520731c8 Sonia D. Andras deposited Crafting Illusions: Fashion as a Means of Decoding Social and Cultural History in Interwar Bucharest in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1771411/ Fri, 11 Feb 2022 02:27:50 -0500 This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the Little Paris. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what type of role…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae6e9c3eda294b63972df02c7a1a5b10 Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion in the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1771406/ Fri, 11 Feb 2022 02:27:30 -0500 This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]

]]> 0 4df3fe0a77c589f475a5dfbaf6aae973 Sonia-Doris Andras created the group Fashion Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1771301/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:46:44 -0500 0