Fri 5 Mar, 2021 Documenting Fashion, Dress Talks, Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Intellectual Property in the Fashion Industry: f...

  This talk examines how fashion designers have used intellectual property rights to protect their creations from piracy, and to advertise the authenticity of their products.  Among the numerous couturiers that have participated in this effort, the archives-based research presented in this talk focuses on the examples of Madeleine Vionnet and Christian Dior, who,…

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Fri 9 Nov, 2018 Dress Talks, Research Seminars

Nita Harvey’s Archive: the role of clothes in the life an...

Four years ago Ellen Nolan inherited a suitcase. Inside was an archive of hundreds of images and documents belonging to her Great Aunt, Nita Harvey, an English actress on the brink of Hollywood success in the 1930s. In 1933 Nita was discovered through a beauty contest, summoned to Hollywood and…

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Fri 15 Jun, 2018 Dress Talks, Research Forum

Fashion Illustration Now

Dr Rebecca Arnold will be conversation with illustrators Frida Wannerberger and Velwyn Yossy, discussing the state of fashion illustration now. The talk will address questions around contemporary fashion illustration and the creation of identities though visual storytelling. How can we bring fashion illustration back into the minds of consumers of fashion…

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Fri 9 Feb, 2018 Addressing Fashion Discussion Group, Dress Talks, Research Forum

Addressing Fashion Images

This session opens up discussion of dress’ significance within imagery – whether paintings, prints, photographs, advertisements, film stills or drawings. It brings together dress and art historians, as well as those interested in exploring issues and meanings within representation. A single image will be shown in each session, giving participants…

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Fri 23 Feb, 2018 Dress Talks, Research Forum

CANCELLED: Nita Harvey’s Archive: the role of clothes in ...

Four years ago Ellen Nolan inherited a suitcase. Inside was an archive of hundreds of images and documents belonging to her Great Aunt, Nita Harvey, an English actress on the brink of Hollywood success in the 1930s. In 1933 Nita was discovered through a beauty contest, summoned to Hollywood and…

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Fri 10 Nov, 2017 Dress Talks, Research Forum

Crossing Boundaries: Dress and Exclusion in Italy, 1550-1650

Elizabeth Currie will discuss dress and deviancy in early modern Italy, from the perspectives of the fashionable elite to others at the social margins. The typical black attire of the Italian nobleman represented an ideal of restraint and sobriety. Other styles that strayed from this model were often denounced, particularly…

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Mon 19 Jun, 2017 Dress Talks

Transnational Fashion History: Some Problems in Twentieth...

Fashion is an emphatically transnational form of modernity and yet it is continually made to serve national agendas and uses pervasive ethnic stereotypes to create cultural value. Fashion thus creates embodied and material engagements between national and cosmopolitan subjectivities. This paper explores the vexed topic of fashion, nation and diaspora,…

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Mon 20 Mar, 2017 Dress Talks, History of Photography

Ad/dressing History: Thoughts on historical pageants as p...

The early twentieth century saw a craze for historical pageants – popular re-enactments of the history of a locality. In these the stress on authenticity of historical representation through words, scenes and costume was particularly important. I consider the role of photography in perpetuating these quasi-ritual processes, values and the…

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Mon 20 Jun, 2016 Dress Talks

The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora

Carol Tulloch’s practice of research in dress studies has invariably been inspired by an image. This was the case for her recent publication The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora. In this informal illustrated talk Carol will discuss the role images have played in the writing of…

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Mon 21 Mar, 2016 Dress Talks

Smock Frocks: the journey from fieldwork to the pages of ...

The smock frock was a nineteenth century utilitarian overall worn by male manual labourers and particularly associated with agricultural work. However, by 1915, the garment had appeared on the front cover of Vogue as an item of female clothing. This paper will trace how and why this change happened, considering…

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Mon 8 Feb, 2016 Dress Talks

Researching and Exhibiting “The Vulgar”.

Judith Clark will discuss her forthcoming exhibition (curated with psychoanalyst Adam Phillips) on aspects of The Vulgar to be staged at the Barbican Art Gallery in October 2016. Clark will discuss curating the, always subjective, subject of taste and how the use of architectural perspective might be used to unsettle…

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