The Fashion Nexus: China, Southeast Asia, and the Making of 21st-Century Fashion
Explores how China’s global rise reshapes Southeast Asian fashion, showing how designers negotiate identity, power, and creativity through local responses to “Global China.”
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Date: 20 MAY 2026 from 17:30 to 19:00
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Event location: AULA M via Beniamino Andreatta 8 "aule Belmeloro" - In presence and online event
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Type: Lectures
Speaker
ISA Visiting Fellow - Ling Wessie Wing See
Professor London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Professor Wessie Ling is a scholar at London Metropolitan University specializing in global fashion studies, creative economies, and postcolonial perspectives. Her interdisciplinary research explores fashion’s role in identity, cultural exchange, and geopolitical power. Notable work includes Game On: The World Fashion Conquest (2006) and studies on Fashion Week globalization (2012). She developed the concept of “fashionalisation” to analyze how fashion institutions both sustain hierarchies and enable new cultural connections.