Gender: Fashion and the Unconscious Bias

Fashion Vanguards

Fashion has over the years frolicked with its association with revolutionary causes and social injustices. Largely due to the key role it plays in the construction of one’s identity, which we explored in the ‘Protest in Fashion’ series. In a world where gender forms the most salient aspects of social identities and a person has the freedom to construct new ones, we explore Fashion’s role in its attempts to disseminate gender inequalities by adopting a more progressive ‘Agender lite’ consciousness. Whilst also analysing fashion's multifaceted motives for joining the gender neutral equality crusade. The fourth episode in the series assesses how fashion has over the years influenced or effected change in respect to gender inequality and how it addresses unconscious bias.