Doctor Karena De Perthuis

Senior Lecturer - Design,
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Biography

Dr Karena de Perthuis is a Senior Lecturer in design and visual communications in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts. She previously taught in the Fashion and Textile Programme in the Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building at UTS and in the School of Art History & Theory at UNSW Art & Design. She has an interdisciplinary expertise across visual culture, media studies and cultural studies with research interests focused in fashion theory and practice. Her work at the intersection of fashion, media and the body has been published widely and is grounded in twenty years practice as a costume designer and stylist in the film, music and advertising industries. She is currently working on a monograph, The Fashionable Ideal: Undoing Bodies and Images in Fashion, which will be published with Bloomsbury.

Karena has been invited to present her research in Sydney, Adelaide, Copenhagen and Shanghai. She is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Fashion Studies and on the Advisory Board of Fashion & Performance at Olle Engkvist Stiftelse, Sweden.

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Qualifications

PhD University of Sydney
BA University of New South Wales

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Design (SoHCA)

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Qualifications

PhD University of Sydney

Professional Memberships

Critical Fashion Studies (2019)
Australian Fashion Research Network (2015)

Interests

Design philosophy and theory, design studies
Fashion studies
Media Studies
Visual Culture

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Design

Committees

Senate Research Higher Degrees Committee (SRHDC)

Contact

Email:	K.DePerthuis@westernsydney.edu.au
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Publications

Chapters in Books

De Perthuis, K. (2023), 'Breaking the idea of clothes : Rei Kawakubo's fashion manifesto', Rei Kawakubo: For and Against Fashion, Bloomsbury Visual Arts 9781350118225.
De Perthuis, K. (2022), 'The utopian "no-place" of the fashion photograph', Fashion, Performance, and Performativity: The Complex Spaces of Fashion, Bloomsbury Visual Arts 9781350106192.
De Perthuis, K. (2020), 'Fashion's image : the complex world of the fashion photograph', A Companion to Photography, Wiley-Blackwell 9781405195843.
Black, P. and de Perthuis, K. (2016), 'Postwar Hollywood, 1947-1967', Costume, Makeup, and Hair, Rutgers University Press 9780813571522.
De Perthuis, K. (2008), 'Beyond perfection : the fashion model in the age of digital manipulation', Fashion as Photograph: Viewing and Reviewing Images of Fashion, I.B. Tauris 9781845115173.

Journal Articles

de Perthuis, K. (2021), 'Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson : step into paradise', Fashion Theory, vol 25, no 2 , pp 289 - 299.
de Perthuis, K. (2020), 'Breaking the idea of clothes : Rei Kawakubo's fashion manifesto', Fashion Theory, vol 24, no 5 , pp 659 - 677.
de Perthuis, K. and Findlay, R. (2019), 'How fashion travels : the fashionable ideal in the age of Instagram', Fashion Theory, vol 23, no 2 , pp 219 - 242.
de Perthuis, K. (2018), 'Tilda Swinton : performing fashion', About Performance, vol 16 , pp 5 - 25.
de Perthuis, K. (2016), 'Darning Mark's jumper : wearing love and sorrow', Cultural Studies Review, vol 22, no 1 , pp 59 - 77.
de Perthuis, K. (2016), 'People in fashionable clothes : street style blogs and the ontology of the fashion photograph', Fashion Theory, vol 20, no 5 , pp 523 - 543.
Black, P., Carter, M., de Perthuis, K. and Gill, A. (2014), 'What lies beneath? : thoughts on men's underpants', Critical Studies in Men's Fashion, vol 1, no 2 , pp 133 - 145.
de Perthuis, K. (2014), 'The mechanical smile : modernism and the first fashion shows in France and America, 1900-1929', Fashion Theory: the Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, vol 18, no 4 , pp 479 - 492.
De Perthuis, K. (2014), 'When too much spectacle is not enough : costume in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby', Film, Fashion and Consumption, vol 3, no 2 , pp 157 - 160.
De Perthuis, K. (2012), 'I am style : Tilda Swinton as Emma in Luca Guadagnino's I Am Love', Film, Fashion and Consumption, vol 1, no 3 , pp 269 - 288.
De Perthuis, K. (2005), 'The synthetic ideal : the fashion model and photographic manipulation', Fashion Theory, vol 9, no 4 , pp 407 - 424.

Conference Papers

Gill, A. and De Perthuis, K. (2023), '#AFeministFuture : feminist social design pedagogy with a case study about young men in Western Sydney', Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools. Conference, Online.
De Perthuis, K. (2020), 'Glitch : when fashion fails', Critical Fashion Studies, Melbourne, Vic..
De Perthuis, K. (2016), 'After the dust has settled : fashion, architecture and the aesthetics of disappearance', Crossroads Conference (Cultural Studies), Sydney, N.S.W..
De Perthuis, K. (2016), 'Tilda Swinton : performing fashion', Popular Culture Association of Australia, Asia, and New Zealand. Conference, Sydney, N.S.W..
De Perthuis, K. (2014), 'Written clothing : how fashion works in the street style photography blog', Fashion Thinking (Conference), Odense, Denmark.
De Perthuis, K. (2008), 'You can't wear a picture of a dress : the abstract world of the fashion photograph', Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. Conference, Brisbane, Qld..

2023 Researcher Development Funding | WSU Women’s Research Fellowship ($29,867.45)