Dr Noriko Onohara
Open Lecture
‘Japan as Fashion, Contemporary Reflections on ’Being Fashionable’
Dr Noriko Onohara is an associate professor at University of Hyogo, Japan, and a visiting research fellow at Victoria & Albert Museum, UK (2009 – 2010). She got Ph.D. in 2004 from Kyoto University with the dissertation entitled ‘Semiotic Studies of Fashion and Clothes’. Her forthcoming book focuses on the poetics of Vivienne Westwood, Gothic Lolita and underwear, and visual performance of Japanese girl pro-wrestlers.
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TrAIN Open Series
The TrAIN Open series is a forum for invited speakers to present exhibition, publication, and research projects in the form of lectures, discussions and screenings.
Taking place at fortnightly intervals on Wednesday evenings during the academic term, the series is open to the public, as well as staff and students across the University of the Arts London.
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Dr Yuko Kikuchi
TrAIN Member - Reader
I was born in Tokyo and educated in Japan, the USA and UK. After completing a BA in English and American literature and an MA in American Studies, I worked at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, and during this period I began my research in craft and design history.
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