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Dr. Djurdja Bartlett is Reader in Histories and Cultures of Fashion at London College of Fashion (LCF).

Bartlett does a magisterial job in traversing the cultural space of Soviet fashion from the s “avant-garde” to the late Soviet era.

Bartlett's work is about the abstract discourse of communist fashion, and it is a surreal read.

And yet, as Djurdja Bartlett shows in this groundbreaking book, the socialist East had an intimate relationship with fashion.

Bartlett traces the progress of socialist fashion in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, and Yugoslavia, drawing on state-sponsored.

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She has widely published and lectured on the theme of fashion during socialism and post-socialism. Bartlett is author of FashionEast: The Spectre that Haunted Socialism (2010) and editor of the volume on East Europe, Russia and the Caucasus in the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (2010).

Funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship grant, Bartlett's research project took her to seven countries–Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Russia–with the aim of exploring previously unrecorded, dress-mediated discourse between East Central European and Russian fashion, and its western counterpart throughout the 20th century to the present day.

From that historical and comparative analysis, the research investigated how fashion adjusted to but also influenced, social, political, cultural and aesthetic movements.