Dressing Desires: girls, gowns and bridal fantasies

Special Event | Updated 1 decade ago

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Dr Ann Schilo
Senior Lecturer, School of Design and Art, Curtin University

The wedding gown is a site for a complex interplay between social mores, dreams and desires. While being a deeply personal choice for a bride, it is also marker of fashion trends, social status, family ties and expression of identity.

From ‘Bridezilla’ to ‘princess for a day’ … images of brides pervade popular culture from film and television programmes through to social media sites and bridal magazines. Such imagery is supported by a lucrative global and local industry devoted to the planning, preparation and marketing of goods associated with weddings. And of major significance is the all-important wedding gown. 

Join Ann Schilo as she discusses how the concept of the wedding dress draws us into a web of social mores, dreams and desires: including contemporary fashion trends, social status, family ties and cultivated traditions of gender roles. 

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