Editorial

Authors

• Daniela Calanca Università di Bologna

  Graduated in Philosophy and in Arts at Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna University, she is Contemporary History Researcher at the Department of the Arts - University of Bologna - Rimini Campus. She is a referee in the VQR 2015-19, and was the Director's Delegate for International Relations at Department for Life Qualities Studies (2019-September 2021). Among her recent publications: Storia sociale della moda contemporanea, BUP 2014; Bianco e Nero. L'Istituto Luce e l'immaginario del fascismo (1924-1940), BUP 2016; Moda e immaginari sociali in età contemporanea, B. Mondadori 2016. 

• Simona Segre-Reinach Università di Bologna

  She is a cultural anthropologist and an associate professor of fashion studies at Bologna University, Italy. She has written extensively on fashion from a global perspective in the books such as Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (2010), The Fashion History Reader (2010), Fashion Media. Past and Present (2013), A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion (2016), The Cambridge Global History of Fashion (2021). Her research includes fieldwork in China and Italy on Sino-Italian collaborations in global fashion. On this matter, she published several articles such as Fast Fashion vs Prêt à Porter. Towards a New Culture of Fashion (2005), and From Joint Ventures to Collaborative Projects: Toward an Ethnography of Sino-Italian Fashion Relations in the 2020s (2021). Recent books include: Biki. French Visions for Italian Fashion (Rizzoli 2019); Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape, with Wessie Ling (I.B. Tauris–Bloomsbury, 2018); and Exhibit! Fashion on Show: Exhibition Spaces and Brand Spaces, with Luca Marchetti (Mondadori Pearson, 2017). Exhibitions include: 80s–90s Facing Beauties: Italian Fashion and Japanese Fashion at a Glance (Rimini Museum, 2013); and Jungle: The Imagery of Animals in Fashion (Torino Venaria Reale, 2017). She is a member of international boards such as Bloomsbury Fashion Central Advisory Board, Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty Advisory Boards; and Fashion Theory Editorial Board. She is a Research partner of CREATURE (The Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement at London Metropolitan University). She is editor-in-chief of Zonemoda Journal.