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Marie Marguerite Rose: A Story of Early-Colonial French Chic and Emancipation...

Marie Marguerite Rose: A Story of Early-Colonial French Chic and Emancipation…

By dr. Mark Joseph O’Connell, My recent post from the Seneca Canadian Fashion Diversity Project: This is Charlene Chasse she has worked as a historical re-enactor with Parks Canada for the past nineteen years. She states of herself:…”I knit, I sew, I cook and I do hot yoga.” She also brings to life the fascinating historical figure of one Marie Marguerite Rose… Fig. 1, “Charlene Chasse…

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Rodeo References

Refences for my Rodeo book series: “Cockettes Founder Hibiscus Dies in New York; 300 Other Cases Reported” Body Politic (85). 1982. Toronto. July–August:16. “Fashion Between the New and the Forgotten: Rose Bertin” 2020. Fashion Heritage. fashionheritage.eu.…

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Succès de Scandale: Homophobia, Racism and Abject Marketing in Fashion

Succès de Scandale: Homophobia, Racism and Abject Marketing in Fashion

Succès de Scandale, the manipulation of outcry over the deliberately shocking, has been used frequently to garner notoriety and fame in the past. Currently, fashion brands are notorious for dropping crypto-offensive items into their marketing and then backing off with a meagre apology when customers react with legitimate offence. Social media hashtags generate viral visibility, and the associated…

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Stolen Goods: Plagiarism and Fashion Scholarship

Stolen Goods: Plagiarism and Fashion Scholarship

“Arsenic Dress”: English or French, c. 1860s The Fashion Research Collection at Ryerson University. Gift The Racked website, recently published a piece on toxic clothing that appears to be an unattributed reproduction of a body of work by Ryerson University fashion scholar Dr. Alison Matthews David. The Racked post even includes a photo of the arsenic dress from the popular “Fashion Victims”…

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“Browsing the Virtual Boutique with Baudrillard: The New Realities of Online, Device-Based, Fashion Design & Consumption” (2021)

“Browsing the Virtual Boutique with Baudrillard: The New Realities of Online, Device-Based, Fashion Design & Consumption” (2021)

Good news. I have a new article “Browsing the Virtual Boutique with Baudrillard: The New Realities of Online, Device-Based, Fashion Design & Consumption” (2021) being published in the special publication: the 3rd Special Issue: In Pursuit of Luxury Journal in collaboration with the Journal of Design, Business & Society.  Abstract Contemporary engagement with fashion is with slick simulacra,…

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Toller Cranston in San Miguel de Allende

Toller Cranston in San Miguel de Allende

    Normally I travel a great deal. For research, for pleasure, for the opportunity to meet new people, see new things. Not now. Since traveling is not currently an option, well not a good option anyway. I have taken the opportunity to travel back through my own journeys and to revisit some of the places I’ve been and things that I’ve seen. I’m living vicariously through myself (how meta).   This…

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My opening "FOCUS/New work" Type Books, Queen St.

My opening “FOCUS/New work” Type Books, Queen St.

  Art Opening: “FOCUS/New work” by: Mark O’Connell Type Books, July 14, 2020

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Night Time on the Wild Patch Night Time on the Wild Patch A short film on the counter-temporal processes of grieving. The catalyst for making this piece was the premature loss of my friend Marianne.

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excerpt from my book “Grotesque”: ELEMENTAL reading from my booklaunch:

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My book "Grotesque" is reviewed in this piece by Melanie Janisse

My book “Grotesque” is reviewed in this piece by Melanie Janisse

http://www.openbooktoronto.com/articles/two_poets_belgium

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Rich Relations: The Evolution and Uneasy Symbiosis of Art and Fashion

Rich Relations: The Evolution and Uneasy Symbiosis of Art and Fashion

Full essay Fashion, Style & Popular Culture:

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/fspc/pre-prints/content-intellect_fspc_00048

Abstract: From its earliest roots, art was used to codify and communicate what is fashionable, powerful and luxurious. Recently, however, through institutional mega art projects like the Fondation LV and the Fondazione Prada, fashion seeks not just…

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Modular Menswear

Highlights from my fashion label: Modular Menswear

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Recent Paintings (2020)

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Sweetarts: The Politics of Exclusion, and Camping Out with Susan Sontag at the Met

Sweetarts: The Politics of Exclusion, and Camping Out with Susan Sontag at the Met

“Sweetarts: The Politics of Exclusion, and Camping Out with Susan Sontag at the Met” (2019)

Mark O’Connell

“I have a confession to make, here, lean in a little closer, I’ll whisper it:

I went to the Camp exhibition at the Met, fully expecting not to like it…”

  Abstract:

  Camp, historically a coded communication of queer identity has been recently dragged out of the closet and into the…

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"Scenes From a PhD Defence" a photo series by @minamomeniphoto https://www.instagram.com/p/CFCUxagA9-q/?igshid=kvnrmpon86da

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Ok, so my PhD defence is tomorrow (I don't reccomended doing this in a pandemic haha) and my wonderful friend since junior school @alexhelenhancock sent me this lovely gift. Thank you!! Everyone sing a little prayer for me at 1 o'clock tomorrow... (at Craig’s Cookies) https://www.instagram.com/p/CErmWNEFeNf/?igshid=1jz0s8cubqm46

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Twilight ride https://www.instagram.com/p/CEp0xdJlXNs/?igshid=xe3h17fe53cn