International Conference on Fashion Theory and Research ICFTR on September 20-21, 2026 in Toronto, Canada

Aesthetics, Fashion and Psychology
Architecture and ‘Urbanism: Design in the Digital Age’
Beauty and Time: Fashion and the Prisoners’
Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries in Design
Body Imaging: Mentalising and Modifying our Bodily Appearance
Body imaging: mentalising and modifying bodily appearance
Clinical psychoanalysis and applications of psychoanalysis to education and health psychology
Colour, fabric and texture
Creativity and unconscious emotional life
Cultural significance of fashion
Directing, image and brand consulting
Empathy by Design
Enclothed Cognition
Enclothed cognition and phenomenology of appreciation and apprehension of beauty
Ethical and sustainable fashion industry
Fabrics and textiles
Fashion and Psychoanalysis
Fashion and textiles
Fashion and Textiles Research
Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity and Deathliness
Fashion design and psychoanalysis
Fashion design, business, history, and visual culture
Fashion from Street to Catwalk
Fashion in the Consulting Room
Fashion industry
Fashion Media: Past and Present
Fashion Research
Fashion Studies
Fashion Studies: Research Methods, Sites and Practices
Fashion Theory
Fashion Theory and Context
Fashion Theory, Methodology, and Source Guides
Fashion thinking
Fashion Thinking and Psychoanalysis
Fashion, clothing, style and the body to psychoanalysis
Fashion, Psychology and the Clinical Encounter
Fashion: History, Theory, Curation and Film
Fast Fashion, Sustainability, and the Ethical Appeal of Luxury Brands
Fetish in fashion
Fetishism, the gaze, fantasy and the uncanny
Freud and Fashion
Luxury Fashion Theory, Culture, and Brand Marketing Strategy
Material and immaterial cultures of fashion
Memory loss and traumatic brain injury
Men’s Underwear
Menswear and gay fashion
Neurology and psychology
Protecting anonymity through uniformity
Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychodynamic Neuroscience
Psychology and Language Sciences
Psychology for Fashion and consultancy
Psychology in Fashion
Relationships in Graphic Design
Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture
Smart Textiles and the Human Computer Interface
Tactile eroticism
The clothes of the patient and the clothes of the therapy
The experience of time and patterns of recognition and modernity
The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory
The idea of sexual symbolism in clothing and fashion
The importance of sexuality in both psychoanalysis and fashion
Women and Fashion