Food and Fashion

Melissa Marra-Alvarez is Curator of Education and Research at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA. She curated the exhibition Force of Nature (2017) and co-curated Fashion & Politics (2009). She has contributed to Fashion Underground (2015), Dance and Fashion (2013), Fashion Designers A-Z, The Collection of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (2013), Bloomsbury's Fashion Photography Archive and Oxford Art Online.

Elizabeth Way is Associate Curator of Costume at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA. She curated the exhibition Fabric In Fashion (2018-19) and co-curated Global Fashion Capitals (2015) and Black Fashion Designers (2016-17). She is editor of Black Designers in American Fashion (Bloomsbury, 2021).

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Preface by Valerie Steele, Director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA
Preface by Fabio Parasecoli, Professor of Food Studies, New York University, USA

Introduction: Fashioning Food - Melissa Marra-Alvarez and Elizabeth Way
Part 1: Food Meets Fashion: Contemporary and Historical Views
1. From Haute Cooking to Fast Food Chic: The Pairing of Food and Fashion – Melissa Marra-Alvarez
2. Haute Couture, Haute Cuisine – Elizabeth Way
3. Dressed to Dine: The Restaurant as Fashionable, Feminine Space – Elizabeth Way
Part 2: Activism: Nature, Labor, and the body
4. Growing Alternatives: Food, Fashion, and the Natural World – Melissa Marra-Alvarez
5. We Feed You: Protest Fashion and the United Farm Workers Union - Michelle McVicker
6. Don't Eat That: Food, Fashion, Dieting, and Disorder - Emma McLendon
Part 3: Cultural Representation
7. Wax Print Yams and Watermelon Hats: The African Diaspora in Food and Fashion – Elizabeth Way
8. The Cross-Cultural Transformations of Chinese Food and Fashion – Faith Cooper
9. I piaceri della tavola: Food, Fashion, and Italian identity – Melissa Marra-Alvarez
10. From Zen to Kitsch: Musings on Contemporary Japanese Food and Fashion – Patricia Mears
11. Without Maize There is No Mexico: Fashion & Corn – Tanya Melendez- Escalante
Part 4: Art and Visual Culture
12. The Eye Has to Eat: Food, Fashion, and Art’s Enduring Intersects – Madeleine Luckel
13. Avocado Toast and Blonde Salad: Critical Perspectives on Fashion and Food on Instagram – Monica Titton
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