Alison Clarke

Fashion Historian

Professor Alison J. Clarke is a design historian and social anthropologist. She regularly engages in academic debate concerning matters of material culture and style, co-organising an international fashion symposium The Death of Taste (2007) at the ICA, London, and MAK, Vienna, exploring the dynamics of fashion change. She has contributed to a range of media including Fashion Theory, the Guardian, Der Standard, BBC Radio 4's Today programme, BBC Nightwaves and as a design anthropologist recently presented for a BBC 2 television series called Home.

Professor Alison J. Clarke is a design historian and social anthropologist. She regularly engages in academic debate concerning matters of material culture and style, co-organising an international fashion symposium The Death of Taste (2007) at the ICA, London, and MAK, Vienna, exploring the dynamics of fashion change. She has contributed to a range of media including Fashion Theory, the Guardian, Der Standard, BBC Radio 4's Today programme, BBC Nightwaves and as a design anthropologist recently presented for a BBC 2 television series called Home.

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