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1918 x 2020: Global Fashion in the Age of Pandemics
Online Event > 02.12.2020, 2.00 AM - 3.30 AM CET
If 2019 fashion was all about the bike shorts and slip dresses, then 2020 is nothing but the mask. While COVID-19 has transformed fashion's role from adornment and fantasy to one of public safety, this is not the first time fashion has had to respond to a pandemic. This is the story of how the 1918 "Spanish Flu" Influenza Pandemic changed the meaning of fashion throughout the world, and how creativity — from fashion designers to ordinary people — can survive, and even thrive, in the darkest of circumstances.
Join New York Adventure Club as we explore global fashion trends during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and what they can teach us about coping with today's health crisis one hundred years later.
Led by fashion historian Caroline Elenowitz-Hess, our virtual look at fashion during pandemics will include:
- How masks and veils were part of the fashion industry’s response to the "Spanish Flu" crisis in 1918
- Bizarre fashion trends that took hold during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, including the “Influenza Instep” and dresses with “Flu Backs”
- Why the 1918 Influenza Pandemic has been seen as a “forgotten” part of American history
- Other ways fashion has responded to disease, from the bubonic plague to AIDS
- A look at the fashion trends emerging during COVID-19
Afterward, we'll have a Q&A with Caroline — any and all questions about the fashion during the 1918 pandemic are welcomed and encouraged!
Can't make it live? Don't worry, you'll have access to the full replay for one week!
Curators in Conversation - Patchwork: A life amongst clothes
Online Event > 11.12.2020, 17.00 – 18.00 CET
The first in a series of public Curator's Talks, Amy de la Haye is in Conversation with Claire Wilcox. The focus is Claire's new publication Patch Work: A life amongst clothes (Bloomsbury Press, 2020), which comprises a deeply poignant memoir in which she portrays the story of her life and work as a V&A curator through the lens of her own clothes and dress in the context of museum objects. Together, they recall their experiences of working as fashion curators at the V&A.
Claire Wilcox is Senior Curator of Fashion at the V&A and Professor of Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion. Amy de la Haye is Professor of Dress History & Curatorship at London College of Fashion. Formerly she was Curator of 20th Century Dress at the V&A.
This will take place online on Teams. Numbers are limited and you will be sent a link 24 hours before the event.
Digital Materialities Webinar Series #2
Online Event > 14.12.2020, 17.30 – 18.30 CET
“Fashions in Miniature: Laetitia Powell’s Dolls and Material Life-Writing” - Dr Serena Dyer (De Montford University, Leicester)
Dolls may be mute and their eyes glassy and lifeless, but the tiny stitches used to construct them hold a myriad of stories about their makers, owners and users. Between the age of thirteen in 1754 and her death at the age of sixty in 1801, Laetitia Powell carefully dressed at least twelve dolls which, together, tell her personal and material story. Begun in childhood, but continued throughout adulthood, these dolls acted as a sartorial biography. Notes tacked to the hems of the dolls’ petticoats reveal the date they were stitched and proffer a description of each doll’s outfit. These snippets of information reveal that these garments were not generic specimens or imaginative fancies. Instead, they were often miniature versions of Powell’s own garments. This life-narrative through fashion, layered with the development and improvement of Powell’s own skill as a maker, can be read across the twelve dolls. Through these dolls, this paper suggests, the dynamics of making and buying dress were intricately entwined with biography. Dolls could be conduits for a wealth of personal and sartorial information.
Dr Serena Dyer is Lecturer in History of Design and Material Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She has edited, with Chloe Wigston Smith, Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Nation of Makers (Bloomsbury, 2020) and is author of Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Modebilder
Online/ Zoom > 04.01.2021, 18.30-20.00 Uhr
Ein Votrag von Diana Weis im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Bildkulturen des Digitalen", Technische Universität Dresden.
Die Professur für Bildwissenschaft im globalen Kontext veranstaltet im Wintersemester 2020/21 in Kooperation mit dem Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden die Ringvorlesung Bildkulturen des Digitalen - Praktiken, Ästhetiken, Genres immer montags um 18.30 Uhr (Ausnahme am 07.12.2020: 11.10-12.40 Uhr)
Die Ringvorlesung wird in digitaler Form stattfinden. Es wird um Anmeldung unter folgender E-Mail Adresse gebeten: DigitaleBildkulturen@tu-dresden.de
Female Fashions Series Ticket: A social history of a century of fashion
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Part one: 1875 to 1918 > 13.01.2021, 20.00 - 21.00 pm CET
Part two: 1919 to 1970 > 17.02.2021, 20.00 - 21.00 pm CET
Female Fashions 1870-1970 – A social history of a century of fashion, by Northampton Museums & Art Gallery.
These hour-long talks focus on everyday fashions drawing on Sharn Matthews’ experience with museum costume collections across the country.
Looking at the history of female fashions from 1875 to the recent past, these hour-long talks with Q&A will focus on everyday fashions from places including Northampton, drawing on 40 years of Sharn Matthews’ experience with museum costume collections across the country. Tracing styles from bustles to mini dresses each new fashion has been reflected in the clothes people wore at home and for special occasions. Preserved in museum collections across the country, surviving examples give us a glimpse into past lives and the changing world their wearers lived in.
To be able to access the talk you will need to use Zoom from your smartphone, tablet, laptop or PC. The talk will be a private Zoom meeting and joining details will be sent after a ticket has been purchased. You will be able to join the call using video or audio only if you would prefer not to appear on screen.
£8 series ticket + Eventbrite booking fee
(Single ticket cost £5 per talk: Part 1 takes place on 13 January and Part 2 takes place on 17 February – if you would like to purchase single tickets these can be bought on separate Eventbrite pages - visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/northampton-museums-amp-art-gallery-2651795534)
Imperial Purple to Marie Antoinette’s fleas
Online Event > 15.01.2021, 12.00 - 13.00 CET
Imperial Purple to Marie Antoinette’s fleas: the social history of colour in textiles from BC to the end of the 18th century, delivered by Dr. Susan Kay-Williams.
How and when was cloth first coloured? Who discovered the principles of dyeing? This lecture begins with the first dyers and takes us through the discovery, use and rules of colours set down by Emperors, Monarchs and the Church but often ignored by the wealthy and fashionable. It shows the developing skills of the dyers to meet the desires of their customers, how they learned to colour different materials and how fashionable colours emerged from the most unlikely sources.