Since the early 2000s she has primarily been a leader in the international field of fashion research and has been associated with Fashion Studies at the Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University.
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Patrizia Calefato has been an inspiring and constantly recurring colleague and force
Patrizia Calefato is a professor of cultural sociology and communication at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. Her broad research field covers philosophy, cultural studies and linguistics, but since the early 2000s she has primarily been a leader in the international field of fashion research. Through semiotics, she became interested in fashion theory in the 1980s, focusing on the body’s relationship to fashion and clothing, and in fashion as its own language system. Books such as Luxury: Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess (2014) and The Clothed Body (2004) are constant references in fashion research, and she has continued to publish at a high rate since then.
“Since the establishment of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University, Patrizia Calefato has been an inspiring and constantly recurring colleague and force: she has taught at all levels, given research seminars, participated in symposia, contributed to publications and also acted as an external reader of master’s theses and as a member of the grading committee. Her many publications on the different meanings of fashion have been absolutely groundbreaking in international fashion research and have come to inspire and largely shape the development of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University”, says Louise Wallenberg, professor of fashion studies at the Department of Media Studies.
