In their research, students explore identity formation, investigate issues of race in the modeling industry, and techniques of self-fashioning and personification in these digital times. They highlight the alternative and inclusive ways of teaching fashion or ways to think of fashion as the source of both economic and social resilience in times of political crises in Lebanon. They explore the importance of alternative systems and peripheries of fashion systems and fashion weeks in modest fashion.They investigate the effects of mediating fashion in the aesthetic construction of labor and workers like les petites mains. They look at magazines as spaces of dialectics and dialogical relationships between art and fashion systems — or even spaces for national identity construction as in the case of Vogue Taiwan. Finally, they navigate the forum of Twitter as a space of resistance and criticism or the new territories of Tik Tok as realms of transformation of fashion media practices.

Togetherness celebrates the hard effort and work of the 2021 graduates and the final outcome that was achieved in spite of the challenging context and struggles.

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