Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal

Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2023, October). Fashion design process: Kathryn A Hardy Bernal.

Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Art and Design), 25 (Special Issue – Fashion), 70-73. https://doi.org/10.34074/scop.1025015 Photo credit: Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal (2023). Una Colección de Moda, “El Amor Nunca Muere”: Deconstructed/Reconstructed Gothic & Lolita Fashion by “Botticelliangel” (Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal). Modelo 2: “Sagravera” (detail). Upcycled (reconstructed) from: 1. Screen-printed clothing patch: Modified by my embroidery,Continue reading “Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2023, October). Fashion design process: Kathryn A Hardy Bernal.”

Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2023, April). In memoriam, in praesentia: La Calavera Catrina and embodiment through a Mexican aesthetic expression of a subcultural gothic fashion style.

In IFFTI Annual Proceedings 2 (pp. 401-426). International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes. ABSTRACT “This paper examines the emergence of the alternative fashion-based Gothic and Lolita movement in Mexico, and its development from its Japanese streetstyle foundations. It investigates its intentions, motivations, symbolism, and intertextual cultural and religious associations, particularly connected with the festivities andContinue reading “Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2023, April). In memoriam, in praesentia: La Calavera Catrina and embodiment through a Mexican aesthetic expression of a subcultural gothic fashion style.”

Edwards, A. (2023). A lifetime dedicated to Lolita with Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal: Interview by AllyRat.

Milk and Honey (2), 16-19. https://allyratworld.com/nzl/zine Edwards, A. (Ed.). (2023). Milk and Honey (2). Winner of the annual “Best Collaborative Zine” award at Zinefest, Wellington, 2023.

Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2019). Lolita Latina: An examination of Gothic & Lolita style in the Mexican environment [Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Massey University].

Massey Research Online: http://hdl.handle.net/10179/15329 Abstract “This thesis, completed for the award of Doctor of Philosophy in Visual and Material Culture, Ph.D., examines the development of the fashion-based Mexican Gothic and Lolita movement, and its evolution from its subcultural Japanese roots. It asks, ‘What are the cultural conditions that encourage this movement to flourish in theContinue reading “Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2019). Lolita Latina: An examination of Gothic & Lolita style in the Mexican environment [Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Massey University].”

Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2017). Latina Lolita: Gender politics and the Gothic and Lolita subculture in Mexico.

Peer-reviewed Proceedings of the 8th Annual Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) Conference (pp. 138-146). PopCAANZ. https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE35346381 ABSTRACT “From its inception, the subcultural movement known as Gothic and Lolita has displayed an exchange of ideas between Japan and Euro-American cultures. More recently, however, the subculture has shifted, not only regarding traditional meanings,Continue reading “Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2017). Latina Lolita: Gender politics and the Gothic and Lolita subculture in Mexico.”

Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2018). Lolita through the looking glass: Alice, the Japanese Lolita subculture and the Lolita Complex.

Chapter 5: In A. Peirson-Smith & Hancock II, J. H. (Eds.), Transglobal Fashion Narratives: Clothing Communication, Style Statements and Brand Storytelling (pp. 91-114). Intellect. ISBN 9781783208449 https://www.intellectbooks.com/transglobal-fashion-narratives ABSTRACT “The fashion style of the ‘Gothloli’ (Gosurori, Gosu-loli, or Gothic Lolita), a member of the contemporary ‘Lolita’ subculture, is inexorably bound to the archetypal ‘Alice’. Members ofContinue reading “Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2018). Lolita through the looking glass: Alice, the Japanese Lolita subculture and the Lolita Complex.”

Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2017). Film Review: Los Misterios de las Monjas Vampiras (The Mysteries of the Vampire Nuns), written and directed by Antonio Álvarez Morán.

Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture, 2(2), 253-259. https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.2.2.0253 “Written and directed by the neo-Mexican visual artist Antonio Álvarez Morán, produced by Guillermo Artasanchez, and shot in Puebla, Mexico, Los Misterios de Las Monjas Vampiras (The Mysteries of the Vampire Nuns) is proposed as a collection of short, surrealist, arthouse, black comedy films. The first completedContinue reading “Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2017). Film Review: Los Misterios de las Monjas Vampiras (The Mysteries of the Vampire Nuns), written and directed by Antonio Álvarez Morán.”

Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2017). Book Review: Teaching Japanese popular culture, edited by Deborah Shamoon and Chris McMorran.

Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture, 2(1), 119-122. https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.2.1.0119 “Teaching Japanese Popular Culture is a multiauthor publication edited by Deborah Shamoon and Chris McMorran. The impetus for this project was generated by an international conference of the same name, organized by the book’s editors, and assisted by Kim Thiam Huat. The conference was hosted by theContinue reading “Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2017). Book Review: Teaching Japanese popular culture, edited by Deborah Shamoon and Chris McMorran.”

Hardy Bernal, K. (2016). Performing Lolita: The Japanese Gothic and Lolita subculture and constructing identity through virtual space.

Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture, 1(1), 79-102. https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.1.1.0079 ABSTRACT “This article investigates the concept of constructing a ‘Lolita’ identity in virtual space. It explores how members of the Japanese fashion-based Lolita subculture use the Internet to formulate images of their desired selves in order to gain acceptance, and establish an ‘authentic’ presence, within worldwide LolitaContinue reading “Hardy Bernal, K. (2016). Performing Lolita: The Japanese Gothic and Lolita subculture and constructing identity through virtual space.”

Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2012). Japanese Lolita: Challenging sexualised style and the little-girl look.

Part 1, Chapter 7: In Tarrant, S., & Jolles, M. (Eds.). Fashion talks: Undressing the power of style (pp. 117-132). State University of New York Press: https://sunypress.edu/Books/F/Fashion-Talks ABSTRACT (2008) “‘Lolita is back’. As early as 1996, Hannah J. L. Feldman made this statement in regard to a newly emerging phenomenon, represented at the time inContinue reading “Hardy Bernal, K. A. (2012). Japanese Lolita: Challenging sexualised style and the little-girl look.”