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Sonia Andras

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Independent Scholar (Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies; Cultural studies not elsewhere classified; Textile and fashion design; Gender, sexuality and education; Gender studies not elsewhere classified; Central and Eastern European literature (incl. Russian); Central and Eastern European languages (incl. Russian))

Romania

I am an independent scholar in fashion studies. I received my PhD in 2020 from University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion with the thesis "The Women of Little Paris: Women's Fashion in Interwar Bucharest". My research interests include fashion culture and history, semiotics, modernity, ideology and politics, cultural studies (gender, urban), anthropology, personal archaeology, art and media history.

Publications

  • Andraș, Sonia D. “„Morbul Garbitei”. Influența modelelor hollywoodiene în moda Bucureștiului interbelic.” In Școală, biserică, stat și națiune în istoria României, edited by Liviu Boar, Ioan Bolovan, and Laura Stanciu, 355–71. Cluj-Napoca: Academia Română Centrul de Studii Transilvane, 2021. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352258271_Morbul_Garbitei_Influenta_modelelor_hollywoodiene_in_moda_bucurestiului_interbelic.
  • Andraș, Sonia D. “Crafting Illusions: Fashion as a Means of Decoding Social and Cultural History in Interwar Bucharest.” Yearbook of the “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, no. 22, 2019, pp. 232–64. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=844919
  • Andraș, Sonia D. “Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion.” Yearbook of the “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, no. 21 (2018): 152–76. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=754920
  • Andraș, Sonia D. “Allo, Allo, Ici Le Bucharest Du Pedigree! The Nationalization of Women’s Fashion in Interwar Bucharest.” Yearbook of the »Gheorghe Şincai« Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, no. XX (2017): 126–65. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=606451
  • Andraș, Sonia D. “Dialog identitar în lumea modei și frumuseții interbelice: Paris-București / Identity Dialogue in the World of Interwar Fashion and Beauty: Paris-Bucharest.” In Actele Unirii / The Union’s Acts, edited by Cornel Sigmirean, Cristina Preutu, and Silviu B. Moldovan, 150–78. Bucharest: Hamangiu, 2018.
  • Dialog identitar în lumea modei și frumuseții interbelice
  • From the Official Gazette to Calea Victoriei
  • Fashion and Eugenics in the Interwar Romanian Gender Discourse
  • Undressing Beauty
  • Decoding the Hat
  • Fashion, Gender and Eugenics in Interwar Romania
  • Beautiful Ambassadors
  • The Ideal Woman
  • A Voyage Through and With Floating Man-Made Islands
  • Beauty and Nation: Miss Romania as International Ambassador
  • „Morbul Garbitei”. Influența modelelor hollywoodiene în moda Bucureștiului interbelic
  • Fashion, Dress, Costume: a Proposed Terminological Clarification in the Historical Research of Women’s Clothing
  • De la cosmetologie la cosmiatrie
  • Perfecțiune și bun gust
  • Fashioning simultaneous migrations
  • Fashioning simultaneous migrations: Sonia Delaunay and inter-war Romanian connections
  • Call for Book Chapters: Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World. Interlaced National Symbols
  • Perfecțiune și bun gust: Redefinirea identității feminine din Bucureștiul interbelic prin modă și frumusețe

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