Scholarship

As an academic,

ACADEMIC Publishing

Insights on Fashion Journalism (2022) edited by Dr Rosie Findlay & Johannes Reponen

This collection surveys the key debates and issues that currently face fashion journalism, going beyond traditional print media to consider its multiple contexts and iterations in an ever-evolving post-digital media environment.

Bringing together a diverse range of contributors, Insights on Fashion Journalism explores the characteristics, complexities, shifts and specificities of the field. The book is organized into three sections, mapping fashion journalism’s established and emerging practices and exploring its parameters from mainstream to marginal. Section One focuses on the complex relationships between those who practice fashion journalism, the fashion industry and the media context in which they operate; Section Two considers the ways in which fashion journalism responds to the socio-political and cultural contexts in which it is created, as well as the impact these contexts have on tone, content and style; and Section Three investigates how language is employed in different media.

Other published articles include:

‘Disarmed: Lasting impressions’  by Jo Cope and Johannes Reponen - Essay published in Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications (2020) by Katherine Townsend, Rhian Solomon and Amanda Briggs-Goode (eds) , Published by Bloomsbury

Fashion Exploring Critical Issues – Book, edited by Barbara Brownie, Laura Petican & Johannes Reponen, Published by Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press

‘Fashion Criticism Today?’ – Essay, published in Fashion Forward Edited by Alissa de Witt-Paul & Mira Crouch, Published by Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

I currently hold the position of Director of Postgraduate Programmes, Academic Affairs, Research & Knowledge Exchange at Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design. Previous to this, I was the course director of MA Fashion Media Practice and Criticism (now BA Critical Practice in Fashion Media) as well as MA Fashion Cultures (now MA Fashion Cultures and Histories) at London College of Fashion.

I am the external examiner of BA (hons) Fashion Design and MA Fashion Brand Communication & Styling at AKTO Art & Design in Athens where I’m also the Chief External Examiner. I was previously External Examiner for MA Culture, Style and Fashion at Nottingham Trent University.

RESEARCH

I am currently completing my practice-led PhD these at London College of Fashion under the supervision of Dr Agnès Rocamora (LCF) and Professor Teal Triggs (RCA). Titled 'Fashion criticism and its changing contexts: Practice-led exploration into fashion writing for online and print', the research aims to define what fashion criticism is today through the use of writing practice, auto-ethnography and interviews with fashion critics.