Silvia Vacirca is a fashion historian interested in the relationship between fashion and the arts. She is a research fellow at the University of Parma within the PRIN 2022 project Cinephemera. Ephemeral materials for the study of Italian cinema between the 1930s and 1960s. She is the author of Fashioning Submission. Documenting Fashion, Taste and Identity in WWII Italy Through Bellezza Magazine (Mimesis International 2023) and a professor of “Fashion in Audiovisuals” at Sapienza University of Rome.
She has participated in numerous international conferences and has published in high-ranking academic journals, including ZoneModa Journal, Film, Fashion & Consumption, Studies in Costume & Performance, Cinergie. Il cinema e le altre arti, and Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies.
She serves as the editorial coordinator of the academic journal Ultracorpi. Il fantastico nelle arti dello spettacolo. Additionally, she is a member of ADH The Association of Dress Historians, the international research group ACORSO GIS Apparences, Corps & Sociétés, and the Consulta Universitaria del Cinema. She regularly collaborates with the fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar Italia.
