• Alistair O'Neill

    • Alistair O'Neill

    • Senior Research Fellow, Central Saint Martins

    • Role: Directors, Management Board
    • Email: a.o-neill@csm.arts.ac.uk
    • Interest: Fashion; Curation; Visual Culture; Twentieth Century London; Photography; Archives
    • Statement:
      My research as a writer and as a curator deals with the representation of metropolitan fashion cultures, the role of the archive and the medium of photography. London- after a fashion (Reaktion Books, 2007) is my first publication which considers the relationship between fashion and modernity in twentieth century London. I also have an interest in men’s clothing, so I am working on a book concerning the career of Savile Row tailor Tommy Nutter as a form of cultural biography informed by oral history, dress history and collecting.

      View project(s):
      - Fashion Lives
      - Wolf Suschitzky: Charing Cross Road in the 1930s

      View publication(s):
      - London: After a Fashion
      - Imaging Fashion
    • Professor Helen Thomas

    • Professor Helen Thomas

    • Director of Research, London College of Fashion

    • Role: Directors, Management Board
    • Email: h.thomas@fashion.arts.ac.uk
    • Interest: Historical and Cultural Studies
    • Statement:
      The major focus of my research is in the area of the body and dance within the field of the sociology of dance and culture, which covers theatrical dance and social dance and involves theoretical and empirical studies. I have been directing three 'dance included' research projects for South East Dance National Dance Agency. South East Dance has pioneered a Creative Dance Apprenticeships (CDA) scheme which employs practitioners, usually skilled in 'street dance' techniques, to work with young people who have been excluded or who have excluded themselves from mainstream schooling on specific dance related projects, such as creating a dance/music video. CDA projects have a research section built into them, to monitor and evaluate them with the aim of developing a flexible embodied, participatory methodology which could be applied to other arts included projects. I am currently engaged in writing a book entitled The Body in Everyday Life which will be published in a Routledge book series, which will also be published as an E-book.

      View publication(s):
      - Growing Old Gracefully: Social Dance in the Third Age
      - Mimesis and Alterity in the African Caribbean Quadrille...
      - The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory
      - Dancing into the Third Age: Social Dance as Cultural Te...