Royce Mahawatte is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Saint Martins. His research interests are in Victorian fiction, the Gothic and cultures of fashion and the body, and he is the author of George Eliot and the Gothic Novel (2013). From arts.ac.uk

Positions

“Racism is reflected in the way that dress is understood... Non-white women have been historically oppressed and their fashions and markers of identity have played a part in this... The underlying issue here is that the fashion industry and western ideas of dressing up and fancy dress are functions of our colonial and imperial pasts – there is no getting away from it”
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central St Martins
2 May 2018
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/cultural-appropriation-appreciation-difference-meaning-fashion-examples-chinese-prom-dress-a8332176.html
“Fashion is political. It is a reflection of the forces that affect our complicated lives. Trends might be short lived, but they are not trivial when it comes to their effects. Our bodies and our clothes play a role in the formation of how we want to appear and the social hierarchies that we live in.”
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central St Martins
24 February 2016
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-royce-mahawatte/rethinking-fashion_b_9100120.html
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