Gothic Fashion The History

Katie Godman is the Curator at The Blandford Fashion Museum and visiting lecturer at Lawrence College. She has previously worked as a Costume Librarian. She studied Creative Writing at the University of Leeds and MA Fashion Cultures: History and Culture at London College of Fashion. She received the Yarwood Award from the Costume Society to fund her research into women's fashion in the early 1800s. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4 discussing gothic fashion, as well as given talks on historical fashion at The Association of Dress Historians Conference, The International Conference of Romanticism, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, Arts University Bournemouth, The Russell Cotes Museum, Nothe Fort, Blandford Fashion Museum, Glastonbury Abbey, Westbourne Bookshop and Ink 84. Her book Gothic Fashion: The History was published by Unicorn Publishing Group on 4th October 2022.