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Prof Vicki Karaminas

Supervisor - PhD Programme

Doctoral Supervisor
School of Design

Vicki Karaminas is Professor of Fashion at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University New Zealand. She is the president and chair of fashion for the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (2012–2015) and the treasurer and chair of Subcultural Style and Identity for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Her book publications include The Men’s Fashion Reader (Berg, 2009); Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television (Berg, 2009); Fashion and Art (Bloomsbury, 2012); Queer Style (Bloomsbury, 2013); Shanghai Street Style (Intellect, 2013); Fashion in Popular Culture: Literature, Media and Contemporary Studies (Intellect, 2013) and Sydney Street Style (Intellect, 2014 in press). She is the principle editor (with Joseph Hancock) of the journal Fashion, Style and Popular Culture (Intellect, Bristol). She is the co-creature of the niche fashion label OPUS9 with Justine Taylor.

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Professional

Contact details

  • Ph: +64 4 801 5799 extn 63447
    Location: 5E15, 10
    Campus: College of Creative Arts

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Supervisor, Massey University

Prizes and Awards

  • Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award 2021 Shortlisted Libertine Fashion. Freedom, Sexual Rebellion and Style, - Association opf Dress Historians (2021)
  • Individual Award for Distinction in Research - College of Creative Arts, Massey University (2020)
  • Norman Haire Fund for Sexology Studies - The University of Sydney (2022)

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Fashion and the Body, Fashion and Sexuality, Fashion and Representations, Fashion and Art, 

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Studies In Creative Arts And Writing (190000): Visual Arts and Crafts (190500)

Keywords

fashion, philosophies of the body, Representation, masculinities, sexualities, gender

Research Projects

Summary of Research Projects

Position Current Completed
Project Leader 0 3

Research Outputs

Journal

Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A. (2020). Time Cruelty and Deconstruction in Deconstructivist Fashion: Kawakubo, Margiela and Vetements. Zone Moda Journal.
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2020). Millennial masculinities: Queers, pimp daddies and lumbersexuals: Special conference issue. Critical Studies in Men's Fashion. 7(1-2), 131-133
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A. (2019). 'Daddy's Little Monster': Suicide Squad, third Wave Feminism and the Pornification and Queering of Harley Quinn. Film, Fashion and Consumption.
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & Roberts, GH. (2019). Special section: Post-soviet masculinities. Critical Studies in Men's Fashion. 6(1-2), 5-11
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A. (2018). Lady Gaga. Russian Fashion Theory. 47(Special 10 Year Anniversary Issue. Decadence), 156-180
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.

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Radner, H., & Karaminas, V. (2017). Letter from the Editors. Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture. 21(6), 621-627
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2017). Lady Gaga: American Horror Story, Fashion, Monstrosity and the Grotesque. Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture. 21(6), 709-731
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V., Geczy, A., & Mountfort, P. (2017). Letter from the Editors. Juurnal of Asia Pacific Pop Culture. 1.2
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., Taylor, Justine, ., & Geczy, Adam, . (2017). Sailor style: representations of the mariner in popular culture. Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture. (1.2), 141-164
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., Karaminas, V., & Taylor, J. (2016). Sailor style: Representations of the mariner in popular culture and contemporary fashion. Journal of Asia Pacific Pop Culture. 1(2), 141-164
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V., Taylor, J.
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Hancock II, J., & Karaminas, V. (2014). The joy of pecs: Representations of masculinities in fashion brand advertising. Clothing Cultures. 1(3)
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Gibson, PC., & Karaminas, V. (2014). Letter from the editors. Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture. 18(2), 117-122
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V. (2012). Vampire Dandies. Reconceptualising Fashionable Masculine Style. The Fashion Theory - Russia. 3(4) Retrieved from http://nlobooks.ru/sites/default/files/old/nlobooks.ru/eng/index.html
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2011). Letter from the Editor. Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture. 16(2), 133-138
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V. (2010). Vampire Dandies: Queering/Querying Fashionable Masculine Identities. Lambda Nordica. 5(6)
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2008). There is a Bug in my Ink Bottle’: The Graphic Art of Australian Women, Greenberg, Graber and Ord. International Journal of Comic Art.
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2007). Australian Gothic. Black Light Angels and Subterranean Style,. International Journal of Comic art.
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2007). Imagining the orient: Cultural appropriation in the Florence Broadhurst Collection. International Journal of Design. 1(2), 11-20
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V. (2006). “No Capes!” Über Fashion and How “Luck Favours the Prepared”.. The International Journal of Comic Art.
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2005). Akira Isogawa: Printemps-Ete, Fashion Theory, The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, vo. 9, issue 4, pp.461-470, 2005, berg. Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture.
[Book Review]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2005). Exhibition review: Akira Isogawa: Printemps-été. Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture. 9(4), 461-470
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V. (2004). Dispositions. Borderlands E-Journal: new spaces in the humanities.
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
karaminas, V. (2003). ‘(Slide Show) Greetings from Australia. Borderlands E-Journal: new spaces in the humanities.
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.

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Book

Karaminas, V., & Taylor, J. (2022). Harry Styles. Fashions Gender Changling. In Fashionable Masculinities, Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals.
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A. (2022). Gastrofashion from Haute Cuisine to Haute Couture.
[Monograph]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., Geczy, A., & Church Gibson, P. (Eds.) (2022). Fashionable Masculinities. Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals.
[Edited Book]Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A.(2022). Gaga Aesthetic. art, Fashion, Popular Culture and the Upending of Tradion.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A. (2021). The Fashion Chamber and the Posthuman Dissolution of Gender. In Staging Fashion. The Fashion Show and Its Stages.
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Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A. (2020). Walter Benjamin. Fashion, Modernity and the City. In M. Barnard (Ed.) Fashion Theory. A Reader. Second Edition.
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & geczy, A. (2020). Lesbian Style. From Mannish Woman to Lipstick Dykes. In M. Barnard (Ed.) Fashion Theory. A Reader. Second Edition..
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2020). Libertine Fashion Sexual Freedom, Rebellion, and Style. : Bloomsbury Publishing
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V., Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2019). Introduction. In V. Karaminas, & A. Geczy (Eds.) The End of Fashion. Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization.
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A. (2019). Time and Memory. In The End of Fashion. Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization.
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2019). Fashion Installation Body, Space, and Performance. : Bloomsbury Publishing
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A. (Eds.) (2018). The End of Fashion. Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization.
[Edited Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Contributed to by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2017). Fashion and masculinities in popular culture.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2017). Critical Fashion Practice from Westwood to Van Beirendonk. London, UK and New York, USA: Bloomsbury
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2016). Fashions double: Representations of fashion in photography, film and painting. United Kingdom: Berg Publishers
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., Johnson-Woods, T., Taylor, J., & Disher-Quill, K.(2015). Sydney Street Style. : Intellect
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V., Taylor, J.
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Karaminas, V., Taylor, J., & Johnson-Woods, . (2015). Sydney Street Style. Bristol, UK: Intellect
[Monograph]Authored by: Karaminas, V., Taylor, J.
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Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2015). The Body. In AP. Palmer (Ed.) A Cultural History of Fashion in the Twentieth Century in the Modern Age. (pp. 63 - 84). London: Bloomsbury
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2015). Walter Benjamin: Fashion, modernity and the city street. In AG. Roccamora, & AS. Smelik (Eds.) Thinking through fashion: A guide to key theorists. : I.B. Tauris
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Johnson-Woods, T., Karaminas, V., & Taylor, J.(2015). Sydney street style. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
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Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2014). Queer Style. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury
[Monograph]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V. (2013). Vampire dandies: Fashionable masculine identities and style in popular culture. In Fashion Cultures Revisited: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. (pp. 366 - 376).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V. (2013). Lesbian Style. In AD. de la Lay, SB. Black, JE. Entwistle, HT. Thomas, AR. Rocamora, & RAR. Root (Eds.) The Handbook of Fashion Studies. (pp. 137 - 158). London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V. (2013). Born this way lesbian fashion since the eighties. In A Queer History of Fashion. From the Closet to the Catwalk. (pp. 193 - 216). : Fashion Institute of Techonology New York
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2013). Australian gothic: Black light angels, appearance, and subcultural style. In Fashion in Popular Culture: Literature, Media and Contemporary Studies. (pp. 49 - 66).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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(2013). Fashion in popular culture: Literature, media and contemporary studies.
[Edited Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
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Johnson-Woods, T., Karaminas, V., & Chan, F.(2013). Shanghai: Street style.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V., & Geczy, AG.(2013). Queer Style. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V. (2013). Vampire dandies: Fashionable masculine identities and style in popular culture. In Fashion Cultures Revisited: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. (pp. 366 - 376).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V. (2012). Image: Fashionscapes- Notes toward an understanding of new media technologies and their impact on contemporary fashion. In VK. Karaminas, & AG. Geczy (Eds.) Fashion and Art. (pp. 177 - 188). London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
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Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (Eds.) (2012). Fashion and Art. London, UK and New York, USA: Berg, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing
[Edited Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V. (2009). Children's Wear. In MM. Maynard (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion , Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, VK. (2009). Urban Menswear. In M. Maynard (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion , Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Oxford: Berg.Bloomsbury
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, VK. (2009). Ubermen: Masculinity, Costume and Meaning in Comic Book Superheroes.
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, VK., & McNeil, PM. (Eds.) (2009). The Men's Fashion Reader. London: Berg.Bloomsbury
[Edited Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, VK., Cole, CC., & McNeil, PM. (Eds.) (2009). Fashion in Fiction. Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television,. Oxford: Berg.Bloomsbury
[Edited Book]Contributed to by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
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Karaminas, V. (2007). Where Fashion and Architecture Collide. The Design Aesthetic of Shimni Pak. In PM. McNeil (Ed.) Shinmi Park: Changeability, The Fashion Trace.
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, VK. (2006). ‘Fashion and Costume in the Middle-East’,. In Encyclopaedia of Western Colonisation Since 1450. : Macmillan/Thomson/Gale Publishers
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Hancock, JH., Johnson-Woods, T., & Karaminas, V. (2013). Introduction. (pp. ix - xvi).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V., White, C.
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Creative Work

Black, S., de la Haye, A., Entwistle, J., Root, R., Rocomara, A., Thomas, H., . . . Taylor, JM. (2013). Lesbian Style, Jeans Opus 9, (figure 7.3) The Handbook of Fashion Studies. London: Bloomsbury Academic
[Design]Authored by: Karaminas, V., Taylor, J.Contributed to by: Taylor, J.
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Black, S., de la Haye, A., Entwistle, J., Root, R., Rocomara, A., Thomas, H., . . . Taylor, J. (2013). Lesbian Style: Pants Opus 9, (figure 7.4) in The Handbook of Fashion Studies. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic
[Design]Authored by: Karaminas, V., Taylor, J.Contributed to by: Taylor, J.
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Conference

Taylor, JM., & Karaminas, V.(2017, July). Sailor style. Representations of the mariner in popular culture and contemporary fashion. .
[Conference]Authored by: Karaminas, V., Taylor, J.
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Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A. (2016). The Huntology of Fashion. Long Live Fashion. , The End of Fashion International Conference
[Conference Abstract]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., Karaminas, V., & Taylor, JM. (2015, June). Sailor style: Representation of the sailor in popular culture and contemporary fashion. Presented at Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Karaminas, V., Taylor, J.
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Karaminas, VK. (2007). Ubermen: Fashionable Heroics and Masculine Style’,. In JP. Peers (Ed.): Kingpower Designing Masculinities Symposium
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, VK. (2006). Wallpaper Tiger: The Florence Broadhurst Collection and Questions of Appropriation in Design,. In KF. Friedman, ECR. Corte-Real, & CR. Rust (Eds.) wonderground conference proceedings. : Wonderground, Design Research Society
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Karaminas, V.

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Karaminas, VK. (2005). No Capes!” Über Fashion and How “Luck Favours the Prepared”. Constructing Contemporary Superhero Identities in American Popular Culture. In V. Karaminas, & MH. Hill (Eds.): Imaginary Worlds, Image and Space
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Other

Karaminas, V., Geczy, A., & Mountfort, P. (2020). Letter from the Editors . Special issue on Masculinities.
[Other]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A. (2020). Editorial. Millennial Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals: Special Conference Issue.
[Other]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & Roberts, G. (2019). Guest Editorial Special Section: Post-Soviet Masculinities.
[Other]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & geczy, A. (2018). Queer Fashion.
[Internet publication]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2016, December). The Huntology of Fashion. "Fashion is Dead. Long Live Fashion".
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Karaminas, V.

Teaching and Supervision

Courses Coordinated

Contact Supervisor

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Main Supervisor 4 5
Co-supervisor 1 1

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • 2022 - Magdalena Karasinska - Doctor of Philosophy
    SMOOSH : a conceptual approach to adaptable flat-pack shoes for contemporary digital nomads
  • 2021 - Vanessa Gerrie - Doctor of Philosophy
    Borderless Fashion Practice: Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age
  • 2020 - Kathryn Hardy Bernal - Doctor of Philosophy
    Lolita Latina: An Examination of Gothic and Lolita Style in Mexico
  • 2019 - Annette O'Sullivan - Doctor of Philosophy
    Wool Bale Stencils: A Design History of New Zealand Branding and Visual Identity 1850-2019
  • 2018 - Dinah Vincent - Doctor of Philosophy
    Dressmaking: How clothing practices made girls in New Zealand, 1945 to 1965

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2019 - Alison Lundy - Doctor of Philosophy
    'this domestic sublime'

Media and Links

Media

  • 14 Sep 2015 - Magazine
    Creative Collision
  • 11 Jan 2017 - Magazine
    Brave New Wardrobe
    Interview on the future of fashion

Other Links

  • OPUS 9 - OPUS 9 is a niche fashion label