Elizabeth Kutesko

Elizabeth Kutesko is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion Histories and Theories at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Her research examines fashion as a transnational modernity framework, focusing on Latin American bodily practices, dress representation, and power dynamics.

• PhD from Courtauld Institute of Art (AHRC-funded)
• Current book project: Fashion and the Devil's Railroad (2026)
• Co-editor of Fashion Studies journal

Research areas include:

• Colonial modernity and photographic representation
• Extractive capitalism's material culture
• Non-linear temporal frameworks in fashion
• Transnational dress practices and migration

Recent publications analyze Brazilian Amazon's dress practices (2024), tropical workwear (2024), and photographic archives (2021). She supervises doctoral research on topics like Andean futurism and melancholic fashion photography.