Nadica Maksimova

PhD, with academic background at the intersection between fashion and media studies. Understanding fashion as a tool for critical analysis, her research is centered on the relationship between fashion and sustainability, with particular attention to the symbolic production of sustainability-related fashion media discourses.

She obtained PhD in Sociology of Culture and Communication at University of Bologna, QuVi Department (Rimini), with a thesis titled "SUSTAINABLE FUTURING. LEARNING AND UNLEARNING THE PAST. A Critical Discourse Study of ‘Fashion Sustainability’-related Discursive Formations in Vogue Italia (1965-2021)"

She is adjunct professor at University IUAV in Venice where she teaches Fashion and Environment. She also teaches Sociology of communication, Fashion publishing and History of fashion at Accademia Italiana, Florence. She is a fellow member of the International Research Center Culture Fashion Communication.