Fashion Talks at AUP: "Making Up Democracy: Beauty, Power & the Politics of Looking"
Fashion Talks at AUP: Between Democracy, Distinction, Discrimination, and Dictatorship "Making Up Democracy: Beauty, Power & the Politics of Looking"
In this provocation, Sharon D Lloyd explores the uneasy relationship between beauty and democracy - where inclusion often performs as progress, and aesthetics become a form of control. Drawing on her research, activism, and policy work across FACE, the British Beauty Council, and London Metropolitan University's Centre for Equity and Inclusion, she considers how beauty both invites and denies belonging. Through the lenses of race, representation, and resistance, she asks: I if democracy begins with how we see one another, what happens when beauty decides who is seen?
About the speaker:
Sharon D Lloyd is an Associate Professor, Beauty Futurist, and Deputy Director of the Centre of Equity and Inclusion at London Metropolitan University. She is Co-Founder and Chair of FACE (Fashion and the Arts Creating Equity) and former Co-Chair of the British Beauty Councils DEI committee, where she led the 2024 national campaign A Beauty Industry That Looks Like You . Her research and activism explore beauty as a sight of power, identity, and resistance, challenging systems of exclusion in fashion and education.
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