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Frédéric Monneyron
Born in Paris to Swiss descent, Frederic Monneyron spent his youth in the United Kingdom and Sweden, later living in Africa, Morocco and the United States. He currently lives in Montpellier, France. He received his Doctorat d’Etat en science politique from the University of Montpellier I in 1984 and his Doctorat d’Etat ès lettres et sciences humaines from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne in 1986. He taught at the University of California, the University of Abidjan, and the Cadi Ayyad University between 1980 and 1988, the University of South Florida and Stendhal University between 1988 and 1998. Frederic Monneyron is a professor emeritus at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia and is the head of the MBA ‘Fashion industries and luxury goods’ at Mod’Art International, Paris, where he teaches sociology of fashion. He also teaches sociology, political science and aesthetics at the University Paul Valéry-Montpellier and sociology of fashion at the University of Geneva and at the University of Barcelona and is a distinguished visiting professor at the University of South Florida, the University of Milan and the University of Bologna. He is the author of more than fifty books, on fashion, luxury, seduction, beauty..., written both in French or in English and translated in other major languages, lately Helter Skelter... (a novel, Rise Press, 2024) and Fashion: A Theory (OpenCulture, 2025).