John PotvinDr John Potvin is Professor of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal, where he teaches on the intersections of art, design and fashion. The author of over 40 essays, his work has been published in such leading journals as The Journa of Design History, Journal of Interior Design, Senses and Society, Genders, Home Cultures, Visual Culture in Britainand Fashion Theory. He is the author of Material and Visual Cultures Beyond Male Bonding (2008), Giorgio Armani: Empire of the Senses (2013) and, more recently, Bachelors of a Different Sort: Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain (2014), winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize. In addition, he is also editor of The Places and Spaces of Fashion (2009) and Oriental Interiors: Design, Identity, Space (2015). His most recent book, Deco Dandy: Designing Masculinity in 1920s Paris (2020) explores the fashion, painting, performance and design cultures of the much-neglected interwar dandy. He also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Design History. Read More Read Less