Lucia Cuba

Peruvian fashion designer and social researcher. Her work involves a critical approach to fashion design and the construction and exploration of garments as performative and political devices. She is interested in broadening the understanding of the role of fashion design objects, from purely functional or aesthetic considerations, to social, ethical and political perspectives. As a scholar of public health and psychology, her work explores issues of body, gender and biopolitics through the construction of garments that act as critical devices.