Azra Tuco PhD Student
Contact
Name and title: Azra TucoPhD Student
Workplace: Department of Media Studies Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Albanovägen 12, Hus 4, plan 5
Postal address Frescativägen 8106 91 Stockholm
About me
My academic background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Advertising & PR and a Master’s degree in Fashion Studies. Throughout my academic journey, I have explored areas such as dress history, material culture, and museum studies. I have extensive experience from the fashion industry, where I have worked with PR and communication, both at Swedish fashion houses and various PR agencies. I have also written for the trade publication Wear Global Magazine, where I reported on the Scandinavian fashion scene. My personal interests are primarily related to fashion and dress history, cultural heritage studies, and material culture, with a particular focus on the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
My dissertation project focuses on the clothing collections preserved after Selma Lagerlöf and Verner von Heidenstam. Through an analysis of surviving garments, in combination with written and visual sources such as letters, photographs, press materials, and memoirs, the study examines the function and significance of fashion in the authors’ dual roles as private and public figures. The clothing collections are also examined as museum objects, with particular emphasis on their role within the contemporary practices of the memorial estates Mårbacka and Övralid. Overall, the study engages with concepts such as fashion, monumentality, self-presentation, gender, and cultural life in turn-of-the-century Sweden.