Dr. Morna Laing is Assistant Professor in Fashion Studies at The New School, Parsons Paris, where she belongs to the department of Art and Design History and Theory.

Her research sits at the intersection of Cultural Studies, Fashion Studies and Media Studies. She has published widely on gender, fashion and spectatorship – particularly childlike femininity – as author of Picturing the Woman-child (2021) and co-editor of Revisiting the Gaze: The Fashioned Body and the Politics of Looking (2020). 

Her current research focuses on the culture of sustainability, exploring fashion media as the site of greenwashing but also a space that holds progressive potential. That body of work will be published as a book, entitled Sustainability and the Fashion Media: Spectatorship, Emotion and Social Change (Routledge, forthcoming). Alongside this she is co-editing a volume that will showcase examples of good practice in the industry, entitled Remaking Fashion Media: Sustainable Narratives and Visions of Change (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).

She lives and works in Paris.