Emmanuelle Dirix is a lecturer, writer and curator based in London. She lectures in Critical and Historical Studies at Chelsea College of Art & Design, Central Saint Martin’s, the Royal College of Art, and the Antwerp Fashion Academy. She regularly contributes to exhibition catalogues and books on fashion, textiles and body politics, including Birds of Paradise: Plumes & Feathers in Fashion, Unravel: Knitwear in Fashion and a series of fashion sourcebooks that cover the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1970s.