Fashioning Subjects Through Meaning and Agency
Fashion Design + Merchandising Assistant Professor, Jeannine Diego, will share her exploration of fashion as a site of embodied agency where self-making and politics intersect. Working with multiple layers of meaning and across a diversity of media, she will present insights from recent and ongoing projects in academia, film, and fashion design. The talk will address central themes that inform both her scholarly and creative practice, and will journey through key moments of her films.
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Speaker Bio:
With over 25 years of fashion industry experience in various contexts and regions, including New York, New Delhi and Mexico City, traversing a broad range of markets and competencies, Jeannine Diego’s extensive professional practice informs her research and creative projects. Her areas of interest lie at the intersections of fashion and politics, as expressed through self-making practices, particularly in Cuba and Mexico. Her research, which has been published in peer-reviewed journals, has also found expression in documentary film projects, including A Wardrobe, An Island (Best Documentary at the Shanghai Indie Film Festival 2025, Semifinalist at the Tokyo Women’s Film Festival 2025), Becoming La Bruja, and Body Double. She serves on the editorial board of Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, and is a member of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion (UCRF). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design and a Master’s Degree in Critical Theory.
