CFP: Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption & Design

CFP Deadline: December 15, 2011 Conference Location: Boston, MA Conference Date: April 11-14, 2012 Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption & Design is concerned with all areas and aspects of style, fashion, clothing, design, and related trends, as well as appearances and consumption using and/or including: historical sources, manufacturing, aesthetics, marketing, branding, merchandising, retailing, psychological/ sociological aspects … Continue reading →

Conference: Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues

Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues 3rd Global Conference Thursday 22nd September – Sunday 25th September 2011 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Fashion is a statement, a stylised form of expression which displays and begins to define a person, a place, a class, a time, a religion, a culture, and even a nation. This interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary … Continue reading →

Paulina Olowska’s “Applied Fantastic” series of fashion-inspired paintings

Polish artist Paulina Olowska has created a series last year called “Applied Fantastic.” The paintings are based on knitting pattern cards, “which keep a distinct flavour of the eastern bloc while looking towards western fashion trends.” Read Frieze’s article from November-December 2006 about the artist here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/43D5Uz/www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/apr/06/poland-artist-week-pictures Continue reading →

CFP: ‘Fashion-Media’

This special issue of SCAN: Journal of Media Arts Culture will explore new directions in fashion and design with regard to screen media, media convergence, cross media/creative collaborations and hybrid media and design aesthetics. While fashion media has been a stalwart of print media — books, magazines, and journals — in the digital era it … Continue reading →

Conference: Ten Momentous Years of Canadian Feminism, 1960-1970

Ontario Women’s History Network Location: Ontario, Canada The ONTARIO WOMEN’S HISTORY NETWORK (OWHN) will be holding the AGM and conference at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto on Friday April 30th-Saturday May 1st. The theme of the conference is Ten years of Feminism 1960-1970. The conference is designed to bring together teachers, … 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 →