![]() Support for Externally Funded Postdoctoral Awards.Archived Research Clusters, Projects and Series.Event recordings – Autumn semester 2022/23.Events recordings – Summer Semester 2022.The 2020 conference will bring together an international group of academics, artists, writers and journalists from our AHRC-funded Fashion Interpretations: Dress, Medium & Meaning Networking Project to discuss their work on the ways the medium impacts fashion’s meanings. Themes covered have included: reality and fantasy in fashion, fashion media, posing the body and passing. These have been incredibly popular, with Bil Donovan, Jason Brooks and Martin Welch all hosting drawing sessions for us. In collaboration with Gray MCA Gallery – we invite an acclaimed fashion illustrator to lead a group drawing session with live models and clothes borrowed from a designer or high end vintage collector. These have included discussions of many aspects of dress history from Elizabeth Currie’s analysis of the dress of outsiders during the Italian Renaissance, to Alison Toplis’ discussion of the evolution of smock frocks, and from Carol Tulloch’s presentation on her book The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora, to Ellen Nolan’s exploration of her great aunt’s legacy of photographs of her time in interwar Hollywood. ![]() We invite an academic, curator or industry professional to discuss their current work in progress or a recent publication. We have talked about a wide range of media- for example, Paul Iribe’s drawings of Poiret’s designs – including a look at the originals from our collections, Erik Madigan Heck’s use of found photographs merged with his own contemporary fashion imagery, and clips and stills from Singaporean-Fillipino film My Name is Cleopatra Wong. This entails a group discussion of a chosen image. We organise at least three events per term, these are open to all (some need to be booked in advance): Addressing Images ![]() Our events are aimed at specialist audiences, members of the fashion industry, and those interested in thinking about fashion, to develop discussions across academia, curation, fashion arts and industry and encourage a rich and well-rounded platform for the subject at The Courtauld. We provide a forum for discussion of leading edge work in the field of Dress History and Fashion Studies. Primarily focused on 20th and 21st century global fashion, we have been organising events since 2014 to promote and disseminate current research on fashion history and theory.
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