Programme

  • 09:30 – 09:50 Registration
  • 09:50 – 10:00 WELCOME by Professor Alexis Weedon
  • 10:00 – 11:30 Panel 1a: FASHION DOCUMENTARIES & Panel 1b: THE PLEASURE OF SEWING
  • 11:30 – 12:30 Panel 2: FICTION/FACTUAL EXCHANGES
  • 12:30-13:30 LUNCH
  • 13.30 – 14:30 KEYNOTE: Pamela Church Gibson
  • 14:30 – 15:30 Panel 3: CAPTURING THE FASHION ‘REAL’
  • 15:30 – 15:45 BREAK
  • 15:45 – 17:30 Panel 4: FASHIONING THE ARCHIVE
  • 17:30 – 18:00 Final remarks

PANELS

1a: Fashion Documentaries

  • Rona Murray - Have Fun: Fashion Matriarchies
  • Daisy Richards - Muses, Mythology and The First Monday in May
  • Karen Ritzenhoff - A maverick on the streets: Bill Cunningham, photography and New York fashion

1b: The Pleasure of Sewing

  • Laurel Forster - Bringing up the Subject of Sewing
  • Joanne Knowles - ‘I should have stayed at home and finished the hem on my skirt’: Sewing, domesticity and distinction in teenage girls’ magazines of the 1970s and 1980s
  • Nickianne Moody - Bunty’s Cut-Out Wardrobe Goes to Art College
  • + Rosie Steele’s poster

2: Fiction/Factual fashion exchanges

  • Rachel Velody - Stitching authority
  • Mariaemanuela Messina - Fashion Cinema and Representations

3: Capturing the Fashion Real

  • Mark Pickering - HUMAN SEE, HUMAN DO: A case study exploration of the para-social interaction between celebrity blogger and fashion consumer
  • Boel Ulfsdotter - Shooting fashion: the double-bind of a non-fiction approach to Paris Fashion Week

4: Fashioning the Archive

  • Silvia Vacirca - Call to fashion reality: a closer look at Istituto Luce Archive fashion cinejournals (1939-1941)
  • Jihane Dyer - Documenting Fashion Histories on the BBC, 1989-2014: Temporality and Cultural
  • Sigrun Lehnert - The Fashion of East and West in German Cinema Newsreels
  • Giulia Caffaro - The Italian Ready-to-wear Fashion through Carousels

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