Flavia Loscialpo

Dr Flavia Loscialpo

Course Leader

Faculty of Creative Industries, Architecture and Engineering

023 8201 3370 ext. 3370 Room no. JM403

Biography

Flavia Loscialpo PhD is a senior lecturer in fashion and MA coordinator at Solent University, UK, where she also leads the research cluster in fashion. She obtained her PhD in philosophy from Sapienza University of Rome (2008), and is alumnus of the MA Fashion Curation, London College of Fashion. She is specialised in curation, philosophy of language, aesthetics, and fashion theory, and has published internationally on deconstruction, Japanese fashion and utopian movements.

Through her curatorial practice and research, Flavia has collaborated with several institutions, among which the Barbican Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the London College of Fashion. She co-curated Drawing and the Body (2011), an exchange exhibition between London College of Fashion and The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Sweden, and Flight: Drawing Interpretations (2013), a collaborative project between London College of Fashion and the National Gallery, London. Her recent research focuses on contemporary and historical avant-gardes in art, design and fashion.

Taught courses

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BA (Hons) Prosthetics and Special Effects Design
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MA Curation and Visual Culture
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MA Make-up and Hair Design Futures
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BA (Hons) Make-up and Hair Design
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MA Creative Direction for Fashion and Beauty
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MA Practice as Research

Further information

  1. Awards

    Flavia has been awarded funds for post-doctoral research at King’s College London (2008-2009), Department of Philosophy and a Doctoral scholarship, by Sapienza University of Rome (2004-2008).

  2. Curatorial Projects

    Flavia has curated several projects, follow the link to find out more...
    June 2013 - Flight: Drawing Interpretations. Collaborative project between London College of Fashion and the National Gallery, London: Friday late event at National Gallery, Symposium at London College of Fashion. Co-curator and researcher. Website: http://flightdrawinginterpretations.com/

    April 2011 - Co-curator of Drawing and the Body. An exploration of the body through drawing by creative practitioners from London College of Fashion, KG52 Gallery, Stockholm, an exchange exhibition between London College of Fashion and The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Sweden. Participants: Helen Storey, Lucy Orta, Simon Thorogood, Philip Delamore, Homarzd Geve Narielwalla, Darren Cabon, Donatella Barbieri, Noro Kim, Charlotte Hodes, Rob Phillips.

    February 2010 - A Fashion in Deconstruction – a hypothetical exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London, curator and exhibition design.

    February 2009 - Young British Designers: Mapping Future Fashion, Victoria & Albert Museum, co-curator and exhibition design.

    April 2009 - Occupying Spaces: The White Dress Project exhibition, 65-67 Broadwick Street, co-curator and exhibition design.

  3. Recent publications

    Flavia's publications include academic journals and books. Follow the link to see some of her published works...
    Loscialpo, F. (2014) ‘Utopian Clothing: the Futurist and Constructivist Proposals in the Early 1920s’, journal Clothing Cultures, 1, 39, Special Issue, Intellect Ltd. Editors J.Turney and A.Franklin, pp.223-242.

    Loscialpo, F. (2013) Series of interviews on ‘Curating’, Address – Journal for Fashion Writing and Criticism, 2nd issue, interviewer F.Loscialpo, pp.208-219.

    Loscialpo, F. (ed) (2013),Flight: Drawing Interpretations, publication for the homonymous exhibition, published by London College of Fashion and National Gallery, London. Essay ‘Notes on Flight’ by F.Loscialpo and B.Whyman.

    Loscialpo, F. (2013) ‘The Fashion Revolution of Japanese Designers: Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo, and Yohji Yamamoto’, Fashion-Wise, e-book, edited by M.Vaccarella and J.L.Foltyn, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, ISBN: 978-1-84888-160-0, pp.21-33.

    Loscialpo, F. (2012) ‘Traces and Constellations: the Invisible Genealogies of Fashion’, Endymatologika, 4, journal by The Hellenic Costume Society and Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, pp.136-145.

    Loscialpo, F. (2012) ‘China through the Looking Glass’, Fashion Practice: The Journal of Design, Creative Process & the Fashion Industry, vol.4, issue 1, pp.135-144.

    Loscialpo, F. (2011) ‘Fashioning the Everyday, Wordplay and the Immateriality’, Address: Journal for Fashion Writing and Criticism, 1st issue, pp.96-102.

    Loscialpo, F. (2011) ‘Fashion and Philosophical Deconstruction: A Fashion in-Deconstruction’ in Fashion Forward, e-book, edited by A. de Witt-Paul and M.Crouch, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, ISBN: 978-1-84888-001, pp.13-29.

    Loscialpo, F. and Hodes, C. (eds) (2011) Drawing and the Body, catalogue for the exhibition Drawing and the Body: an exploration of the body through drawing, published by London College of Fashion. Essay ‘Along Lines and Contours, a Polyphony in the Making’ by F.Loscialpo.

    Loscialpo, F. (2010) Review of Starting with Derrida by S.Gaston, in French Studies: A Quarterly Review, Oxford Journal, 2010, 64 (4), pp.518-519. 

    Loscialpo, F. (2009) Review of The Domestication of Derrida: Rorty, Pragmatism and Deconstruction by L.Fabbri, in French Studies: A Quarterly Review, Oxford Journal, 2009, 63 (4), pp.498-499.