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Soluble Fish presents: a talk by Mark O'ConnellFashionable Friends, Gorgeous Frenemies: Queer Paris and Its Cultural Entanglements 1954–1995
Sunday November 15, 7:30 pm
Free Times Café, 320 College Street Toronto
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Paris always knew how to dress up a scandal. Behind its couture salons and Left Bank cafés, queer friendships shaped fashion, literature, and intellectual life. Enter Antonio Lopez and Juan Ramos’s glamorous expatriate circle; the rivalry between Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld, with Jacques de Bascher at its centre; Edmund White’s literary contretemps with Susan Sontag; and the fraught intimacy of Michel Foucault and Hervé Guibert. A journey through friendship, ambition, betrayal, and queer Paris…all in the encroaching shadow of AIDS.
Dr. Mark Joseph O’Connell is a professor of fashion studies at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto. His research focuses on visual culture, political economy, queer identity, and the history of fashion. He is the author of Canadian Fashion Economies and the forthcoming Perspectives on North American Dress History: 19th-Century Case Studies from Canada, Mexico, and the United States both with Bloomsbury, as well as Lilac Time at the Rodeo and Lilac Time at the Rodeo 2. His articles have appeared in Fashion Theory, Textile, Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, and Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture. An artist, writer & designer, he worked in-house at M.A.C Cosmetics and in men’s fashion. Current work: markoconnellstudio.com.
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