Professors Emily Apter (NYU), Rhonda Garelick (Parsons/The New School), and Anne Higonnet (Barnard/Columbia) investigate the role of fashion in the construction of political power, from female fashion in the aftermath of the French revolution to the prescient allegorization of old and new varieties of fascism in “The Emperor's New Clothes,” Hans Christian Andersen’s popular tale. By looking at the surprising critical power of fashion, Professors Apter, Garelick, and Higonnet show how clothing has been our social skin, a modernity we have worn.