As the summer term starts, all thoughts turn to dissertations. While this year’s students focus on their writing, let’s take a look at the wonderful array of subjects covered so far.
All dissertations are available on request at The Courtauld Book Library – click here for details: http://courtauld.ac.uk/study/resources/book-library/collections-services/dissertations-theses
2010/11
Rachel Boddington – ‘Feminine identity and the consumption of synthetic fabrics: the projection of social judgment onto synthetic fabrics, and its ramifications for female identity in the 1930s’
Harriet Hall – ‘Nostalgia, innocence and subversion: Kawaii and the Lolita fashion subculture in Japan’
Hannah Jackson – ‘Representing femininity: Madame Yevonde’s Goddess series, 1935’
Jemima Klenk – ‘A process of reorganisation: the construction of modern classicism as a social, fashionable and political response to modernity 1930-1939’
Lily Le Brun – ‘”Life lived on a plane of poetry”: images of Siegfried Sassoon in the Lady Otteline Morrell album collection’
Uthra Rajgopal – ‘The release of fancy dress in interwar Britain: a closer look’
Emma McClendon – ‘”First Paris fashions out of the sky”: an examination into the effect of the 1962 Telstar satellite on the dynamic of the transatlantic fashion industry’
Katy Wan – ‘Photographic and bodily exposures in Garry Winogrand’s “Women Are Beautiful”’
2011/12
Alexandra Dives – ‘Swimwear in aspirations of modernity and identity: the healthy ’mindful body’ in politics, class and gender in 1930s Britain’
Elizabeth Kutesko – ‘Representation of Moroccan women’s dress in National Geographic, 1912-2012’
Lucy Moyse – ‘”A seductive weapon… a necessary luxury”: the fragrance ventures of Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli during the interwar period’
Amanda Pajak – ‘Low: a psychogeographic analysis of the American and German influences on David Bowie’s image during the 1970s’
Natalia Ramirez – ‘Blogging and the reinvention of the fashion industry in the early 21st century’
Rebecca Straub – ‘Man-made: gender performativity in the costume and practice of rehabilitation at Walter Reed General Hospital’
2012/13
Sarah Heather Brown – ‘The look of citizenship: subjecthood in Humphrey Spender’s ’Worktown’ photographs’
Emily Collyer – ‘Selling with sex: underwear advertising in women’s magazines, Britain 1946 – 1955’
Katherine Gruder – ‘Modernity, vitality and freedom : the factors behind the founding of the men’s dress reform party’
Michele Levbarg-Klein – ‘Styling identity: character construction and contemporary culture in the fashion editorial imagery of American, British, French and Italian Vogue 1990-1999’
Madeleine Piggot – ‘Alexander McQueen: a construction of Britishness in the media, 1994-2010’
Charlotte Smart – ‘Constructing identity through adornment: the jewellery of Wallis Simpson and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons, 1919-1939’
Antonia Their – ‘Undressing Scorsese : theorising film costume as text and subtext’
Nadya Wang – ‘Fashioning multiracialism: (ad)dressing the modern Singapore woman in “her world” in the 1960s’
2013/14
Fruzsina Bekefi – ‘Fashioning the future: High treason (1929) and the wardrobe of tomorrow’
Elisa de Wyngaert – ‘Inhabiting art and fashion: the case of designer and artist Helmut Lang’
Jessica Draper – ‘The space between a uniform and a utopia: an exploration of how Sophie Hicks’s style wields power’
Jennifer Potter – ‘Consuming fashion and selling social dance: Irene Castle’s performances in early twentieth century consumer culture, 1912-1915’
Julia Rea – ‘Adorned in myth: the significance of mythology in Chanel jewellery, 1932-2012’
2014/15
Brianna Carr – ‘Motif as motive: representations of Helena Rubinstein’s brand of beauty in America, 1915-1930’
Lauren Dobrin – ‘Embodying the nation: dress, image and performativity in the Miss America pageant and protest of 1968’
Lisa Osborne – ‘Pleats and folds: modernity, technology and atemporality in the designs of Mariano Fortuny and Issey Miyake’
Emma Parnis England – ‘”Between two lives”: fashioning T. S. Eliot’s fragmented self in modernist portraiture, 1925-56’
Nicole Prattis – ‘Lee Miller’s war photography: the boundaries between civilisation and demise (as seen in Vogue)’
Rosily Roberts – ‘Performances of Mexicanidad: displaying nationalism in representations of Mexican dress after the Mexican Revolution’
