SEPTEMBER 2021 ISSUE Fashion Therapy: Doctor Dawnn Karen on mental health in fashion, Dopamine Dressing and why she's no longer wearing leopard print From fashion model to master of Freud, Doctor Dawnn Karen addresses both dresses and stresses as the world’s first Fashion Psychologist. ------- BY MADELEINE KILLICK "In fashion we're not speaking about our feelings; we're dressing them," says Doctor Dawnn Karen. CREDIT: DAWNN KAREN Juggling between the catwalk and the chaise longue of the psychiatrist’s office, former model Doctor Dawnn Karen was studying Psychology at Colombia University when she began to treat trauma with trends of the sartorial kind. Upon graduating in 2012, Karen established the Fashion Psychology Field: a study and theory examining how clothes, colour, image and shape affects human behaviour. Two year later, Karen made history when she was made the youngest, first black woman Psychology professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology. ...