• Dr. Joe Hancock

    • Dr. Joe Hancock

    • from 10 June to 10 July 2009

    • Post: Visiting Fellow
    • Statement:
      Joseph Hancock is an Assistant Professor at Drexel University’s Westphal College in the Department of Fashion and Design & Merchandising. He is currently serving as Drexel’s Steinbright Cooperative Career Center’s faculty member of the year.

      Joe has an extensive twenty-year retailing background, working for such prestigious companies as: The Gap Corporation, The Limited, Inc., and the Target Corporation.

      Joe earned his PhD from the Ohio State University, focusing his research in the areas of fashion branding, contemporary mass fashion, and popular culture. He has published works in the Journal of American Culture and Fashion Practice; and his book Brand/Story is scheduled to be released July 2009. He has lectured and taught courses at University of Technology in Sydney, Australia and at Stockholm University.

      Dr. Hancock serves on the editorial board of the Journal of American Culture, is the Area Chair for Fashion, Appearance & Consumer Identity for the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, and was their 2009 recipient of the Felicia F. Campbell Award for Area Chairs.
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    • Anke Loh

    • Anke Loh

    • from 05 to 31 January 2009

    • Host: LCF & CSM
    • a.loh@fashion.arts.ac.uk
    • Website: http://www.ankeloh.net
    • Statement:
      Anke LOH studied fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, earning a BFA in 1998 and an MFA in 1999. Her fashion design has been shown worldwide, including the recent Dressing Light project at UBS Tower and the Chicago Cultural Center; She is currently teaching as an Assistant Professor at ‘The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’, Fashion Department. The Anke Loh collection has been presented in runway shows at the Centre Pompidou in Paris; the Osaka Collection Show in Japan; and Mode 2001 Landed in Antwerp. Loh designs costumes for theatre and dance companies, including Rosas / Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. In addition, Loh was honored as a Laureate at the Festival International des Arts et de la Mode in Hyères, France. Loh was born in Germany and lives in USA.

      Loh's current project looks at garments functioning as a second skin inspired by and interacting with their environment in the content of "Transnational Spaces”. Space and place are not limited to the simple physical concepts but are elements in a virtual structure, composed of various social relationships with different scopes. Cultural identity, transnational space, homeland/ native country, geography, urban center, city planning, urbanity, proximity and distance, global and local, can all enter into a broader definition of space and place.
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    • Hamish Morrow

    • Hamish Morrow

    • from 01 to 30 June 2008

    • Post: Visiting Fellow
    • Host: LCF / CSM
    • studio@hamishmorrow.com
    • Website:
      http://www.hamishmorrow.com/pages/masscouture.html
      http://www.hamishmorrow.com
    • Statement:
      Hamish Morrow was a visiting fellow at the Research Centre for Fashion, the Body and Material Cultures in June 2008 working on a project called 'Mass Couture'. In this project Hamish will look at evolving the precious object into an accessible object for mass consumption and mass distribution.

      Hamish was born in South Africa in 1968 and immigrated to London to study at Central Saint Martins in 1989. He completed his studies at the Royal College of Art, where he obtained an MA in Menswear Fashion Design, which led to a series of positions working in Milan, including working on men’s and womenswear at Byblos, under the creative direction of John Bartlett.

      In 2001 Hamish launched his own line at the London Fashion Week. For the next three years, he worked on his own line as well as for a number of internationally known design houses, including couture at Louis Feraud, menswear at Fendi, and alongside Mariuccia Mandelli at Krizia.

      In 2005, Hamish produced the first chapter of a life-long exploration of fashion designed to be worn in Space and zero gravity environments, which included a short film and proposals for future dress including ‘space denim’ and recycled sports garments. In the same year, his luxury sportswear collection was launched, and found immediate commercial success. A combination of sports and luxury fabrics and nano-technology, introduced the modern design and comfort of sportswear into the world of couture.
    • Amber Butchart

    • Amber Butchart

    • from 01 to 31 May 2007

    • Post: Visiting Fellow
    • Host: Archives, CSM/LCF
    • Statement:
      Amber Butchart was a visiting fellow at the FBMC Research Centre in 2007. Butchart's project looked at Hollywood Glamour versus Parisian Couture, which was the key influence on 1930's British home-dressmaking and fashionability.
    • Outputs:
      Working Paper - Flooded with Little Joan Crawfords, Hollywood in London: Constructs of fashionability and dress democracy in the early 1930s. Published by the Research Centre for Fashion, the Body and Material Cultures (2008)
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    • Karen Young

    • Karen Young

    • from 01 to 31 January 2007

    • Post: Visiting Fellow
    • Host: London College of Fashion
    • Statement:
      Karen Young is a New York based costume designer where her work is focused on design for modern dance and video art. She designs for numerous dance companies and has a long standing association with the Martha Graham Dance Company as costumer and costume archivist. Costume design for video art includes Eve Sussman's "89 Seconds at Alcazar" recently on view at the National Gallery and MoMA, and "The Rape of the Sabine Women", which recently premiered at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. Other design for video works include: Matthew Barney's "Cremaster 5", Toni Dove's interactive feature "Spectropia", and David Michalek's "Slow Dancing" which premiered July 2007 at Lincoln Centre in New York.
    • Anna Nicole Ziesche

    • Anna Nicole Ziesche

    • 05 January 2006

    • Post: Visiting Fellow
    • Host: Central Saint Martins
    • Statement:
      Anna-Nicole was the first FBMC Visiting Fellow. During her time in the Centre, she focused on making a short, conceptual film conveying the process and meaning of creating a contemporary fashion drawing, in collaboration with Howard Tangye. The film installation piece ‘Marking Out Space’ conveys a reconstruction of the sequence through which drawn lines and marks eventually form an image on paper. The artist remains invisible yet represented by the line’s characteristics. Depicting solely fragments, ‘Marking Out Space’ creates a balance between abstraction and representation, enhanced by merging different drawings.
    • Patrik Aspers

    • Patrik Aspers

    • from 01 to 31 January 2006

    • Post: Visiting Fellow
    • Host: London College of Fashion
    • Website: http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/people/pa/
    • Statement:
      Patrik Aspers was a visiting research fellow at the Research Centre for Fashion, the Body and Material Cultures in 2006. Aspers studied sociology at Stockholm, Harvard and Columbia University, he is research fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for the Studies of Societies in Cologne, Germany and Associate Professor at Stockholm University. Aspers is the author of Markets in Fashion, A Phenomenological Approach (Routledge 2005), a number of articles and he has been chair of the economic sociology research network of ESA. His research interests are economic sociology, especially aesthetic markets, fashion and phenomenology.
    • Outputs:
      Working Paper - The Altruistic Donor and the Opportunistic Well-doer, Labelling Fashion Markets in Theory and Practice. Published by the Research Centre for Fashion, the Body and Material Cultures (2006)
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