Events: October - December 2007

Symposium Indigo: global perspectives

Venue:
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

Cost per day: £40 (£20 concessions) including tea and coffee

A one-day symposium at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery To coincide with the exhibition Indigo: A Blue to Dye For www.brighton.virtualmuseum.info/exhibitions/indigo.asp, This one-day symposium brings together a range of specialists to explore the uses of indigo in world textile traditions, past and present.

Speakers include Jenny Balfour-Paul (authority on indigo; author of Indigo, British Museum Press, 1998), Dominique Cardon (specialist in archaeological textiles and natural dyes; author of Natural Dyes, Archetype Books, 2007), Noorjehan Bilgrami (textile historian and artist, Pakistan), Hiroyuki Shindo (textile artist, Japan) and Philip John (Professor of Plant Biochemistry, University of Reading).

Booking Information: To book, please send a cheque made payable to ‘Brighton & Hove City Council’ to:

Paula Wrightson
Museums Learning Officer
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
4-5 Pavilion Buildings
Brighton BN1 1EE

Tel: 01273 292864 email: paula.wrightson@brighton-hove.gov.uk

Modus Operandi: State of Affairs in Current Research on Belgian Fashion Symposium

Venue:
ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen – MoMu Nationalestraat 28, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium.

Cost per day: Adults: € 12 Students: € 5 - including museum visit.

This symposium will include six lectures by young national and international researchers of Belgian twentieth century fashion. Starting from their own area of research, speakers will address fashion historical, socio-economic, as well as contemporary artistic aspects. This day is a unique opportunity to gain insight into current developments in Belgian fashion research.

The programme includes an introduction to and allows time to visit the current MoMu exhibition “Bernhard Willhelm: Het totaal rappel”.

Speakers:
Kaat Debo (MoMu, Antwerp),
Véronique Pouillard (Université Libre de Bruxelles / Columbia University, N.Y.)
Nele Bernheim (Hogeschool Antwerpen / Universiteit Antwerpen)
Javier Gimeno Martínez (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
An Moons (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Todd Nicewonger (Columbia University, NY)
Francesca Granata (Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London/Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute, N.Y.).

All lectures will be held in English.

Website
Booking Information: info@momu.be
Tel: +32 (0)3 470 27 74

Unravelling Couture Culture Conference

Venue:
V&A Museum
South Kensington
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL

Time:
10.30-17.00

Cost per day: full rate including V&A Patrons and Members £53; senior citizens, £45; students, disabled people and ES40 holders £21 (includes lunch). For two-day ticket prices please call +44 (0)20 7942 2211.

This is a V&A Conference.To accompany the exhibition – The Golden Age of Couture:Paris and London 1947-1957, 22 September 2007 to 6 January 2008.

This two day conference will explore the world of Haute Couture in Paris and London between 1947 and 1957. This decade - positioned as it was between the second world war and the ready-to-wear revolution of the 1960s – was described by Dior as 'a golden age'. The exhibition is curated by Claire Wilcox. The conference will have 12 individual papers, panel discussions and allow time to visit the exhibition. The conference will be a forum for the presentation of new research and will explore issues such as the collective of craft-based industries which supported the production of couture, its manufacture and consumption, and Haute Couture's different cultural and socio-economic meanings.

For more information click here.

Book online or email bookings.office@vam.ac.uk.

Unfortunately due to unforseen circumstances this event has been cancelled

Edwardian Style; Fashion and Shopping at the Turn of the Century

Venue:
The London College of Fashion
John Princes Street
London W1

Time:
10.30am - 4.30pm

Cost per day:
Costume Society members tickets at £ 20.00
Non-members tickets at £ 25.00
Student tickets at £ 15.00 (With proof of status)

The Costume Society, in association with the London College of Fashion, is pleased to present a major study day exploring the uniform, fashion and shopping habits of the Edwardians.One hundred years on from the height of the Edwardian period, 2007 is an ideal time to re-evaluate the fashionable and ceremonial dress of the beginning of the the last century.

The Edwardian period is one of huge social and political upheaval, economic mobility and stylistic change. The technological and manufacturing revolution of the Victorian period was harnessed and refined to provide luxury goods for the elite and greater access to better quality clothing and information about fashion for the masses.

This study day, with its focus on the reign of one of the most image-conscious British monarchs, includes the ceremonial and personal style of the King himself; the clothing of the Suffragettes; the shopping habits of the Edwardian middle and lower classes; the invention of the Liberty Bodice in 1908 and tops off with a look, at Edwardian millinery.

Not to be missed!

Booking Information: Please send your cheque with this slip Edwardian Booking.pdf and a stamped self-addressed envelope to:
The Costume Society
10 The Orchard
Locking
Weston-Super-Mare BS24 8DU