Seventy Years of Fashion History in São Paulo, Brazil (1950-2020)

Abstract

This text contains partial results of the project Histórias da Moda, developed with the primary objective of inventorying academic production by and for researchers interested in the relationships between past times and fashion throughout Brazil. The compilation below simultaneously contemplates the broadest conceptions of fashion and of history, bringing together theses and dissertations defended in Postgraduate Programs in São Paulo, from the precursor study by Gilda de Mello e Souza (1950) to those presented in the year 2020. The institutional collections of dozens of institutions were consulted, and more than a hundred relevant titles were obtained. The vastness of digital repositories and the profusion of information available on the internet justify the creation of surveys like this, to assist in the literary review stage of fashion studies. Some preliminary considerations were made about the titles and institutions, and several possibilities for using the results obtained were also observed, whether as part of the “state of the art” of production, or the study of the formation of professional networks established between advisors and researchers.