Rebecca Halliday has a Masters in Theatre & Performance Studies from York University and a BA Honors in Drama and Creative Writing from the University of Alberta. Her dissertation examines the structure and mediation of the contemporary fashion show in the online era. She describes instances in which the fashion show re-focuses consumer attention onto the live event to re-assert high fashion as exclusive, even as practices such as live streaming help to democratize fashion in a temporal sense. She also reads the fashion show as the site at which contestations between the press and bloggers are enacted, and argues that Fashion Week’s street style parades mark high fashion’s incorporation of street style’s subcultural associations. Her work appears in TranscUlturAl: a Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies, and Fashion Theory: the Journal of Dress, Body and Culture. Rebecca has worked as an arts and culture administrator and as a freelance writer, editor and stylist in Toronto and Edmonton.