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 teaching Textile Culture and Fashion Publishing at Accademia Italiana, Florence, and is a fellow member of the International Research Center Culture Fashion Communication.