Nathalie Khan

Fashion Historian

Nathalie Khan is Course Leader on BA CCC (Culture, Criticism and Curation) at Central Saint Martins and teaches fashion cultures and theory at NYU London and Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York. 

Khan is a leading theorist and writer on contemporary fashion media and the impact of new technology on the traditional catwalk show, performativity, fashion photography and feminist approaches to fashion curation. 

Recent publications include ‘Cutting the Fashion Body: Why the fashion image is no longer still, (Fashion Theory, Bloomsbury 2012) and ‘Sealing the moment: the non-narrative fashion films of Ruth Hogben and Gareth Pugh’ (Fashion, Film and Consumption, Intellect 2012), as well as ‘Fashion as Mythology – Considerations on the legacy of Alexander McQueen’ (Fashion Cultures Revisited, Routledge 2013). 'Intervening Fashion: A Case for Feminist Approaches to Fashion Curation' (Fashion Curating, Bloomsbury, 2017) and 'Cultural Representations: Hair as Fetish and Display in Art and Queer Performance', (A Cultural History of Hair, Bloomsbury: 2018). Nathalie is currently working on a research project about the runway and queer acts of walking. 

Curatorial practice includes 'Punish the Streets: The Story of vFd' at New Art Projects (London: 2018) and 'I know simply that the sky will live longer than I' with the Belgian visual artist Pierre Debusschere during the 28th International Festival of Fashion and Photography (Hyeres, 2013).

Nathalie Khan is Course Leader on BA CCC (Culture, Criticism and Curation) at Central Saint Martins and teaches fashion cultures and theory at NYU London and Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York. 

Khan is a leading theorist and writer on contemporary fashion media and the impact of new technology on the traditional catwalk show, performativity, fashion photography and feminist approaches to fashion curation. 

Recent publications include ‘Cutting the Fashion Body: Why the fashion image is no longer still, (Fashion Theory, Bloomsbury 2012) and ‘Sealing the moment: the non-narrative fashion films of Ruth Hogben and Gareth Pugh’ (Fashion, Film and Consumption, Intellect 2012), as well as ‘Fashion as Mythology – Considerations on the legacy of Alexander McQueen’ (Fashion Cultures Revisited, Routledge 2013). 'Intervening Fashion: A Case for Feminist Approaches to Fashion Curation' (Fashion Curating, Bloomsbury, 2017) and 'Cultural Representations: Hair as Fetish and Display in Art and Queer Performance', (A Cultural History of Hair, Bloomsbury: 2018). Nathalie is currently working on a research project about the runway and queer acts of walking. 

Curatorial practice includes 'Punish the Streets: The Story of vFd' at New Art Projects (London: 2018) and 'I know simply that the sky will live longer than I' with the Belgian visual artist Pierre Debusschere during the 28th International Festival of Fashion and Photography (Hyeres, 2013).

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