The EnClothed Collective

The En[...]Clothed Collective is an interdisciplinary research project launched in 2020, led by Fiona Dieffenbacher, Assistant Professor of Fashion, and supported by research assistants: Alice Emma Carlisle Schoenberg, MFA Fine Arts ('21) and Yingru Chen, MA, Cultural Anthropology ('21), Gabriele Vazquez, MA Anthropology ('22)

In an attempt to explore how clothing acts as a mediator between various “bodies,” states and environments, En[...]Clothed seeks to explore the lived experience of embodiment. Specifically, how may we speculate the space “in between” ([...]) through the lens of body, clothing (or without clothing), and identity?

Interiority[...]exteriority
The visible[...]invisible
Material[...]immaterial
Physical[...]spiritual
Immanence[...]transcendence
Perishable[...]Imperishable

As a cumulative project, we seek to mediate the space in between theory + practice, breaking down silos towards generating new hybrid models of embodied research and intervening in existing discourses and to generate new understandings, practices, and relationships