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CLASS DESCRIPTION
Vogue magazine is considered the original fashion bible, the bastion of ultimate mode… it has burnt itself onto our cultural consciousness. Uncontested market leader for over a century and million-dollar money machine, it has made its name selling to women. And yet Vogue has often disparaged women and punished LGBTQ+ identities. This lecture both honours forgotten visionaries and looks at how social norms can be interpreted either harmfully or positively depending on their translator.
Join Nina-Sophia Miralles, journalist, fashion historian, and author of ‘GLOSSY: The Inside Story of Vogue’ for a one-of-a-kind insight into the world of fashion publishing and how it affects women everywhere. This session will reintroduce Vogue figureheads erased by the establishment, editors and icons who lived outside the heteronormative mould and had an outsize influence on the legendary magazine, as well as on art and culture at large.
This lecture will also lift the veil on the treatment of women at Vogue and look at how an all-male management affected office environments as well as artistic output in ways that trickled down into mainstream society. In this section, we’ll be looking at overtly sexual fashion shoots, the symbolism and messaging encoded into famous photographs, and the varied way in which Vogue has portrayed gender in its pages through the ages and why.
Nina-Sophia aims to examine how fashion publishing could break free of misogyny, and what lessons there are to be learnt for anyone who wants to work in the intersection of design, photography, art and journalism.
ABOUT OUR LECTURER
Nina-Sophia is a London-based writer and editor specialising in the arts, culture, history and fashion.
In 2015 she founded LONDNR, an award-winning digital and print publication where she remains at the helm. LONDNR Magazine is a retreat for creative minds; a thought-provoking repository of stories that sit outside of news cycle and legacy media biases. It is partially funded by The National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Nina-Sophia also writes freelance for national and international press, including The Observer, The New Statesman, The Business of Fashion, and The Paris Review, amongst others.
Her first book, ‘GLOSSY: The Inside Story of Vogue’, was published by Hachette in 2021. So far, it has been translated into 8 languages.
Instagram: @nsmlles or @londnrmagazine
Twitter: @londnr
Website: ninamiralles.com OR londnr.com
UPCOMING SESSIONS WITH THE FEMINIST LECTURE PROGRAM
Monday 4th March
Dr. Noam Yadin Evron
The Vulva's Pilgrimage: Myth and Meaning in Medieval Vulva Badges
Monday 11th March
Ruth Charnock and Karen Schaller
Witching the Institution: Academia and Feminist Witchcraft
Monday 18th March
Lucy Cade
Female Creatives and Spirit Photography in the 19th Century
Monday 25th March
Dr. Sheree Mack
The Women of the Black British Art Movement
Monday 1st April
Nina-Sophia Miralles
Vogue Magazine: Invention, Erasure, Perversity & Power
Monday 8th April
Camilla Baier, Lauren Clarke and Rachel Pronger
The Animation of Mary Blair: A Feminist's Guide to Disney
Monday 15th April
Lauren Peters
Fashion Before Plus-Size: Bodies, Bias, and the Birth of an Industry
Monday 22nd April
Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone
Intimate Ecologies: a Black feminist erotics for interspecies un/worlding
Monday 29th April
Joanna Ebenstein
The Anatomical Venus
Monday 6th May
Amina Nugumanova and Elmira Ismukhamedova
Women in Central Asian art: Preservation of Collective Heritage and Decolonisation
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RECORDING
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PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Everyone is welcome to join this Pay-What-You-Can class. We suggest a donation of £20, however, we understand that may not be possible for everybody. Please be honest and pay what you can afford so that we can continue to offer our sessions on a donation basis.
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