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Wednesday January 11, 2023

    7:00 PM

Join us for a fire-side chat with two incredible speakers:

Véronique Hyland is the Fashion Features Director at ELLE magazine and the author of the book Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion From the New Look to Millennial Pink, which was named one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker, Esquire, and the Financial Times. Her work has previously appeared in the New York Times, W, New York magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and Condé Nast Traveler. Her proudest accomplishment and greatest shame is coining the term "millennial pink."

Osman Yousefzada was born in Birmingham to migrant parents who were illiterate both in English and their mother tongue. An artist and writer who studied at SOAS and Central Saint Martins, he has an MPhil from Cambridge University. His visual art practice - of sculpture, moving image and textile installation - has been showcased in international programmes at the Whitechapel Gallery, MCA Sydney, Dhaka Art Summit, Ikon, V&A and more. He has made clothes for Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Lupita Nyong'o, Gwen Stefani, Emma Watson and many more. His experience within the fashion industry continues to inform the politics of his practice concerned with the rights of the anonymous worker and disposable consumerism. He edits The Collective and has written for Vogue, the Guardian and Observer. Osman is currently a research practitioner at the Royal College of Art and visiting fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge University.  In his memoir, The Go-Between (2022), set in Birmingham England in the 1980s and 1990s, alternative masculinities compete with strict gender roles while female erasure and honour-based violence are committed, even as empowering female friendships prevail. This first book was long listed for the Polari Prize and reviewed by Stephen Fry as "one of the greatest childhood memoirs of our time".