Dr. Mark Joseph O'Connell 🏳️🌈☮️❤️
@markoconnellstudio
Professor at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto. Research areas: fashion history; Queer history; visual culture; transglobal commodities that shaped colonial societies, and fashion tech. Publications: markoconnellstudio.com
My 'Fashion as Evidence' lecture sold out, and was a total blast! Thank you to everyone who came out. Content was from my book Canadian fashion economies from Bloomsbury: Canadian Fashion Economies: A Select History of Fashion Culture, Commerce, and Colonization: share.google/7z2GHMjOdc6d...
Rick Owens frock coat and Hermès circus tie for my Last Dance talk tonight! I will have books for signing with me as well
Giving a talk tonight in Toronto! Last Dance: The Lost Legacy of 70s LGBTQ+ Fashion Icons" Monday, November 24, 7:30 pm. Free Times Cafe. 320 College Street. Soluble Fish Lecture Series. #Halston #WayBandy #ScottBarrie #Disco #Fashion #FashionHistory #Makeup #Lgbtq #queerhistory
Canadian Fashion Economies by Mark Joseph O'Connell is a re-examination of Canadian cultural and commercial history, told through the key fashion objects from First Nations, colonial, and contemporary Canadian culture. From @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social #Canada #fashion #history
Researching at the AMNH in NYC this week. The collections workers are so dedicated and knowledgeable as always. Northwest Coast First Nations galleries at the American Museum of Natural History are beautiful and thoughtfully designed. The power of the objects in the spaces is palpable. @amnh.org
The folks who attended were amazing! Also the #chesterweinberg dress from 1968 made appearance
Amazing to give the keynote talk for the Seneca Pride Month 2025 kick off 🌈. Spoke on my Lilac Time at the Rodeo fashion & AIDS research. We had a Drag show & tie-dye party too! a.co/d/gt01yGh
I will be speaking on my Lilac Time at the Rodeo, fashion and AIDs research at the Seneca Pride Month Kick Off 2025. It is on Tuesday, June 3, 2025 | 10 a.m. to noon MH1005, Magna Hall, King Campus. You are all invited, it is SO great to see the Seneca commitment to Pride. a.co/d/4UCiP5f
Like mother like daughter, this is fabulous
Great new textile based art exhibition at Gagne at 401 Richmond in Toronto!
The new Gordon Shadrach painting exhibition at United Contemporary in Toronto is pretty incredible!
Marion Cotillard in vintage Dior spring 1957
Beautiful performance of the Four Seasons by the National Ballet of Canada this evening
"Fashion for Art’s Sake”: Willi Smith, WilliWear, and the Imbrication of Fashion and the Avant Garde" my research on the amazing Willi Smith and WilliWear which I wore to all of my high school formal dances in the 80's www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Ancient, yet so familiar. I was demo painting yesterday in similar hues
I accidentally matched my student's textile design project #senecafashion
Happy Lumberjack New Year!! Wishing you all the best of everything in 2025 🖤❤️🖤❤️
Happy birthday Emily Dickinson "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" (circa 1862)
Flawless performance of Giselle by #nationalballetofCanada tonight. It just makes my spirit soar that there is such beauty and refinement in the world
Silver Screen by #nationalballetofCanada is SO good!
Sweater from parcel posted in 1807 - The National Archives www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/p...
Hello Lilac Time at the Rodeo 2! Stories of: Marie Debris, David Wojnarowicz and Martin Wong. Available on Amazon on Valentine's Day! This Valentine's Day give the gift of #Queer #history! #queerhistory
This Valentine's day, give the gift of Queer History! Lilac Time at the Rodeo 2: Stories of Marie Debris; David Wojnarowicz & Martin Wong. By: Mark Joseph O'Connell Publishing date: February 14th, 2024, on Amazon, or your local Queer indie bookstore! #art #arthistory #queer #queerhistory
Thrilled that Bloomsbury will publish my next book: Canadian Fashion Economies: A Select History of Fashion, Culture, Commerce, and Colonialization. In it, I trace social & economic impacts of iconic garments from Canadian fashion history. ETA 2024!