Maja Gunn

Maja Margita Gunn (born 1978)[1] is a Swedish fashion designer, design researcher and academic who has specialized in lesbian and gender clothing.[2][3] In December 2017, she was appointed Professor of Crafts at the Gothenburg University Design School.[4]

Early life and education

Born in Hallsberg, central Sweden, on 31 January 1978, Maja Margita Gunn was brought up in Ludvika. After studying fashion at Stockholm University and at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands, she graduated in fashion and costume design at Stockholm's Konstfack in 2005.[3] In 2016, she earned a doctorate from the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås with a dissertation on Body acts queer: Clothing as a performative challenge to heteronormativity.[5][6]

Career

Gunn has worked as a costume designer for SVT Swedish Television and in fashion at H&M. She worked for a couple of years designing items for the ladies collections at Marc Jacobs in New York. While in the United States, she also designed costumes for television and theatre.[5][7] More recently, she has created items for the lesbian and gay community, exhibiting her work at Liljevalchs in Stockholm (2015)[3] and at the Textile Museum in Borås (2017).[5][8] In an interview with Cecilia Ekebjär of the Swedish dt, she summed up her approach as follows: "I am interested in materiality, the relationship between body, clothes and gender."[3]

In December 2017, Maja Gunn was appointed professor of arts and crafts at Gothenburg University's Steneby Design School, providing special focus on fashion design.[5]

References
  1. "Maja Gunn" (in Swedish). ratsit. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  2. "Maja Gunn". International Gender Design Network. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  3. Ekebjär, Cecilia (17 October 2015). "Gunn från Ludvika undersöker vad vi berättar med plaggen" (in Swedish). dt. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  4. "HDK: Crafts and design at Steneby". University of Gothenburg. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  5. Ekström-Frisk, Eleonor (10 November 2017). Mode, kropp och oskrivna regler (in Swedish). GP.
  6. Gunn, Maja (2016). Body Acts Queer: Clothing as a Performative Challenge to Heteronormativity. Högskolan i borås. ISBN 978-91-88269-16-4.
  7. "Maja Gunn" (in Swedish). Svensk Filmdatabas. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  8. "Maja Gunn: Play" (in Swedish). Textil Museet. Retrieved 16 January 2018.


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