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Costume Colloquium Participants will access to all academic Sessions, Events, Site Visits, and Receptions. The final detailed program will be given during registrations in Florence.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 from 2:00 to 7:00 pm
(Venue: Palazzo Coppini)
Registration, Welcome Reception, Visit of Museo Fondazione Del Bianco and the exhibitions set up for the occasion.
Exclusive Vo per Botteghe® walking tour.
Thursday, November 15, 2018 from 8:00 am to 7:30 pm
(Venue: Auditorium al Duomo)
Session I, Session II, Session III, Session IV
Exclusive visit to Atelier GiuliaCarla Cecchi
Friday, November 16, 2018 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
(Venue: Auditorium al Duomo and excursions to Firenze Rifredi)
Session V
Exclusive visits to Mazzanti Piume, Plissettatura Milady and the Factory Store “Officina Profumo Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella”
Saturday, November 17, 2018 from 8:30 am to 7:00 pm
(Venue: Museo del Tessuto di Prato and other excursions)
Session VI
Exclusive visits to Museo del Tessuto di Prato, Lineapiù Italia Archive, Trafi Showroom
Sunday, November 18, 2018 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
(Venue: Stia)
Daily excursion to Stia in Casentino territory
Exclusive visits to Museo dell’Arte della Lana, Tessilnova.
A special visit to another historic place has been scheduled….surprise!
DETAILS OF SESSIONS
Session I – Patterns of Power: The Politics of Textiles and Dress
Miller, Lesley (Senior Curator of Fashion & Textiles; Professor of Dress and Textile History) Victoria and Albert Museum, London & University of Glasgow, UK – Copying and Creating: Textile Choices at the Court of Spain, 1759-1808
Teilmann-Lock, Stina (Associate Professor) University of Southern Denmark & Thylstrup, Nanna Bonde (Postdoc) University of Copenhagen, Denmark – Intellectual Property in Textiles: from Calicos to Wearable Tech
Bethe, Monica (Director of Medieval Japanese Studies Institute (Japan) – Roses and Spangles Travel East: The Story of an Empress’s Manteau de Cour Preserved in a Japanese Convent
Blumin, Marina (Curator) Department of History of Russian Culture at State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation – Revolutionary Headscarf as a Symbol of New Soviet Fashion
Cooper, Cynthia (Head, Collections and Research, Curator) Costume and Textiles at McCord Museum, Canada – Tartanizing Canada
Session II – Fabricating History: Scraps, Remnants, and Samples
Grömer, Karina (Archaeologist & Staff Scientist) Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria – Recreating Dress from Central Europe, 2000 BC – Visuality – Body language – Identity
Matthews David, Alison (Associate Professor) Ryerson University, School of Fashion, Canada & Strasdin, Kate (Senior Lecturer) Cultural Studies, Falmouth University, UK – Missing Persons: Scraps of History and Textile Clues
Vaughan Kett, Anna (Senior Lecturer) History of Art and Design, School of Humanities at University of Brighton, UK – Cotton and Antislavery: The Strange Story of Slave-Labour and Free-Labour Gingham Cloth in the 1850s
Brewer, Laurie Anne (Associate Curator) Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, USA – Sample: Idea to Inspiration in Museum Collections
Session III – Promoting Craft: From Workshop to Runway
Hansen, Michaela (Curatorial Assistant) Department of Costume and Textiles at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA – Limited Edition: Wax-Resist Dyed Textiles for Wiener Werkstätte Fashion.
Masetti, Alessandro (Curator) Art, Furniture and Design collections, and Head of Press Relations at Fondazione Giovanni Michelucci, Fiesole, Italy – “Esperienza Artigiana” and the Galleria Vigna Nuova: Craftsmanship and Fashion in 1940’s Florence
Warren, Erica (Assistant Curator) Department of Textiles at Art Institute of Chicago, USA – Modern Designer-Craftswomen: Dorothy Liebes and Bonnie Cashin
Toftegaard, Kirsten (Curator & Keeper) Fashion and Textile Collection Design Museum Danmark, Denmark – Erik Mortensen – Haute Couture – Fabrics and Adornments – 1982 to 1995
Matheson, Rebecca Jumper (Adjunct Instructor, MA Program) Fashion and Textile Studies at Fashion Institute of Technology, USA – Leather, Denim, Canvas, Corduroy: The Materials of Phelps Associates’ Ready-to-Wear Expansion
Session IV – Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On: Embellishment and the Imagination
Candréus, Cecilia (PhD & Senior Lecturer) Textile Studies, Department of Art History, Uppsala University, Sweden – In Search of Precious Gold and Pearls: The Acquisition of Embroidery Materials used in the Royal Workshops during the Reign of Gustav I Vasa of Sweden (r. 1523-1560)
Kay-Williams, Susan (Chief Executive) Royal School of Needlework; Wyman, Angie (Course Leader) Royal School of Needlework, UK Malik, Sophia (Senior Lecturer Textiles) Royal School of Needlework); Rose, Clare (Senior Lecturer) 0.6 Contextual Studies at Royal School) – ‘Off the Surface’ The Use of the Archive to Inspire Hand Embroidery Practice at the Royal School of Needlework
Kargól, Marta (Assistant Fashion & Textile Collection) Museum Rotterdam, The Netherlands – Embroidered Fabrics into Fashion. Exploring Embroidery Collections of Nellie van Rijsoort
Carrara, Gillion (Adjunct Professor) Department of Fashion Design, Department of Art History, Theory, Criticism at School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Kania, Beata (Interdisciplinary artist and educator) School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College; William Rainey Harper College – Absence + Presence of the Embroiderer Beata Kania
Session V – Material Locations: Place, Cloth, and Culture
Talbot, Lee (Curator) Eastern Hemisphere Collections, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, USA – From Court Costume to “Cool Biz:” Bingata in Okinawa and Beyond
Gristina, Susanna (Architect & President) Korai (Territory, Development and Culture), Italy & Campagna, Francesco (Lawyer and Honorary Consul of the Republic of Ghana in Sicily) – The Korai x Kente Project: Turning the Handmade Ghanaian Kente Cloth from a Local Cultural Identity’s Expression to Contemporary Creative Fashion Tool by Involving Communities Between Ghana and Sicily
Samadova, Asli (External Consultant & Special Projects Manager) The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Azerbaijan – A Journey of Kelaghayi, a Traditional Azerbaijani Costume Headscarf, to a Fashion Accessory
Irvin, Kate (Curator of Costume and Textiles) The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, USA – Creatively Defying Brokenness: Repaired Textiles and Future Fashions
Session VI – The Future is Now (and Then): From Cellophane to Smart Textiles
Sauro, Clare (Director and Chief Curator) Fox Historic Costume Collection Drexel University, USA – “A Season of Cellophane Everywhere”: Cellophane Textiles, 1932-1936
Chee, Suzanne (Conservator) Textiles and Fashion at Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney Australia – Tech Couture: The Download on 3D Printed Fashion in Museum Collections
Scaturro, Sarah (Head Conservator) Metropolitan Museum of Art, Costume Institute, USA – Triumph and Tragedy: Polyurethane’s Fashionable Rise and Chemical Fall
Horton, Jo (Senior Lecturer in Mixed Media Textiles at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) Mixed Media Textiles at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK – Metal Horticulture and New Approaches to Materials, Technology and Surface Treatment in the Processing of High Value Fashion Textiles
(last update November 7, 2018)
