Jay McCauley Bowstead

Jay McCauley Bowstead lectures in Cultural and Historical Studies at London College of Fashion and writes on fashion, masculinity, material culture and design. His recent publications include the monograph 'Menswear Revolution' for Bloomsbury Academic, a co-authored chapter for the book 'Teaching Fashion Studies' (edited by Holly Kent), and a forthcoming chapter on designer Hedi Slimane for the updated edition of 'The Meanings of Dress' (edited by Kimberly Miller-Spillman and Andy Reilly).

With a background in fashion design, McCauley Bowstead has worked for a number of brands, including Burberry and the Anglo-Korean label Design Workers, and an engagement with craft, manufacture and aesthetics continues to inform his theoretical work. This summer he will be delivering papers at the ‘De/Constructing Masculinities?’ conference at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg; at the Costume and Visual Cultures’ conference at the University of Zagreb; and at the ‘Fashion, Masculinity: transgressing binaries’ symposium at the University of Newcastle. He recently delivered a talk on contemporary menswear at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.