Antonio Lopez: Fashion, Art, Sex, & Disco Tuesday, March 12, 2012 at 6pm Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center, first floor New York City Authors Roger Padilha and Mauricio Padilha, along with special guests Pat Cleveland and Corey Tippin, discuss their first complete monograph on the work of extraordinary fashion artist … Continue reading
Category Archives: Lectures
Lecture series: Voices in (and around) the Museum
Voices in (and around) the Museum is a series of four discursive events co-organised by the UCL Mellon Programme and UCL Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies. Wednesdays, 6pm (May 4, 11, 18, 25, 2011) University College London From being perceived as a collective resting place for mute objects and a silent, ocular-centric … Continue reading
Patricia Mears: Constructing Classicism in Fashion
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/album.php?aid=285203&id=7640348500 Check out photos from costume historian Patricia Mears’ lecture on fashion in the past exhibition Chaos & Classicism. Mears discussed clothing innovations that defined fashion in the 1930s and how they continue to influence modern dress and couture today. To learn more, visit the Chaos & Classicism online exhibition: http://ow.ly/3M02V By: Solomon R. Guggenheim … Continue reading
Farewell to Visual Studies
The Stone Summer Theory Institute 2011 Theme: Farewell to Visual Studies July 17-23, 2011 Application deadline: Apr 15, 2011 School of the Art Institute of Chicago The Stone Summer Theory Institute – Fellowship opportunities James Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago); Sunil Manghani (York St. John’s University); Gustav Frank (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich) Chicago The … Continue reading
Lecture: Sustainable Fashion Futures – Mathilda Tham at FIT
Sustainable Fashion Futures – Mathilda Tham Thursday, June 17, 6-8 pm Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center, first floor Dr. Mathilda Tham will discuss how fashion and our relationship with it can incorporate more sustainable ideas, practices, and processes. Dr. Tham is a Visiting Professor in Fashion at Beckmans College of … Continue reading
Talks & Tours at FIT: Eco-Fashion: Going Green
Eco-Fashion: Going Green Wednesday, June 23, 10:30 am (CH) Wednesday, July 14, 10:30 am (JF) Monday, July 26, 6 pm (CH) Wednesday, August 11, 10:30 am (CH) Monday, August 23, 6 pm (JF) Fashion & Textile History Gallery Co-curators Jennifer Farley and Colleen Hill lead tours of Eco-Fashion: Going Green, an exhibition that surveys 250 … Continue reading
Think Pink! Forecasting National Color Trends from Midtown Manhattan, 1920s – 1950s
F.I.T. NYC Lecture: Think Pink! Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Who predicted color trends before Pantone and the Color Marketing Group? This talk explores the careers of America’s first professional color forecasters and their efforts to coordinate the flow of color information through the millinery, leather, garment, and textile … Continue reading
Object of Fashion 