Camille Benda on Dressing the Resistance and Costume Design
![Black Muslims Meeting. USA. Chicago, Illinois. 1962. Daughter and wife of Elijah Mohammed with Malcolm X. | Photo: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos.](https://thepool.calarts.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/DTR_ch4_007A-890x609.jpg)
When done in earnest, protests generally aren’t seen as a place for fashion. But Camille Benda, author of the book Dressing the Resistance: The Visual Language of Protest Through History, might beg to differ. It examines the role clothes play in activism, from what’s worn to what is not. Benda, CalArts’ head of the Costume Design…