Exhibitionism - 50 Years of the Museum at FIT

A talk by Dr Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at FIT (MFIT) in New York.

Paris, Capital of Fashion

Paris, Capital of Fashion, a talk by Dr Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at FIT (MFIT) in New York.

Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear 1715 - 2015

Curator's talk by Sharon Takeda, Curator of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

The Dress Detective

Dr Ingrid Mida, Curator, Dress Historian and post doctoral fellow, Ryerson University talks about her book The Dress Detective: A Practical Guide to Object-Based Research in Fashion

Debating the Disciplines

Centre members, Professors Amy de la Haye and Judith Clark, Alison Moloney, Professor Claire Wilcox, Professor Carol Tulloch and Dr Shaun Cole engage in debate in a round table discussion about fashion curation Debating the Disciplines.

Gluck: Art and Identity Curatorial Research Methodologies and symposium

A talk by Prof Amy de la Haye and Dr Jeffrey Horsley on curatorial methods used in the Gluck: Art and Identity exhibition, a Heritage Lottery Funded partnership with Brighton Museum on the British artist Gluck.  Followed by a Symposium: Gluck: Art  and Identity: Dressing the artist with include: Martin Pel, Brighton Museum, Simon Martin, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester,  Amy de la Haye and Jeffrey Horsley, CfFC. Among the themes are: Exhibiting a Life in Art; Absence, Gender, identities; and Art and LGBTQ* Biographies.

Feeling our Way: Memory and the Senses

A talk by Professor Gaynor Kavanagh, Emeritus Professor, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Other talks, Symposiums and Conferences

A deeper look into CfFC's themes with speakers such as: Bullet holes bring reality Elizabeth Crooke from the University of Ulster on displaying garments emblematic of the Northern Ireland troubles;   Reading and Writing Fashion in the Museum by Paola di Trocchi, writer and fashion curator at the NGV National Gallery of Victoria, and PhD graduate Dr Jenna Rossi Camus on curating T-Shirt: Cult - Subversion, her exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London.

Conference Part 1

Part 1

Models, Mannequins and Bodies, Modelling McQueen, Caroline Evans Professor of Fashion History and Theory, Central St Martins, UAL, Bodies, Artifice and Atrocities, Jane Munro, Keeper, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, In conversation: Meeting the Maker and the Model, Caroline Evans Professor of Fashion History and Theory, Central St Martins, UAL, Kees van der Graaf, Designer Laura Morgan, Model. Costume and Performance Theatrical Cut: McQueen at Berman’s & Nathan’s, Keith Lodwick, Assistant Curator, Theatre and Performance Department, V & A, Dancing McQueen, Jane Pritchard, Curator of Dance, Theatre and Performance Department, V & A

Conference Part 2

Part 2 Adornment. Makeup, Masquerade and McQueen, Janice Miller, Senior Lecturer of Cultural and Historical Studies, London College of Fashion, Bird-women: feathers, claws and metaphor in the work of Alexander McQueen, Kate Bethune, Senior Exhibition Researcher, Alexander McQueen

Part 3 Georgina Goodman, Shoe Designer in conversation with Oriole Cullen, Acting Senior Curator of Contemporary Fashion, V & A, Student Presentation, Sam Gainsbury, Gainsbury and Whiting in conversation with Susannah Frankel, Fashion Director, Grazia Magazine and Closing Remarks

Jenna Rossi-Camus

Ben Whyman

Antonis Daikos

NJ Stevenson

Louise Chapman

June Rowe

Cyana Madsen