MONICA TITTON

The Scientific Research Grant is awarded to Italian sociologist, fashion theorist and cultural critic Monica Titton.

She currently works as a senior researcher at Modeklasse, the fashion department of Vienna's University of Applied Arts. Her research project: "Between the Folders: Untold Stories of Fashion, Craft and Style in the Colonial Archives of Fascist Italy" aims to study the mutual influence between Italian, Ethiopian, Somali and Eritrean fashion, craft and style in Fascist Italy, and to reconstruct the traces and legacies of Italy's colonial past on fashion cultures in the Mediterranean region.