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Treasures: Portraits of Costume in Malta
Online > 24.02.2021, 20.00 - 21.00 CET
Join art historian & curator Caroline Tonna to learn about the importance of fashionable dress to 18th-century Maltese gentry and nobility.
The virtual lecture attempts to show that fashionable dress was an essential part of good taste and luxury for the Maltese gentry and nobility of the 18th century mirroring contemporary styles emerging from European fashion centres. The focus will be on portraits of costume in Malta in the rich collection of the Museum of the Order of St John, London.
Caroline Tonna is an art historian and curator at Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum Mdina. She holds Bachelor degrees in Anthropology, and Art History and has obtained a Master of Arts degree in Art History. She has contributed in local and foreign papers and delivered lectures on her specialised subjects in dress history and photography. Caroline has extensive experience in publishing, radio and television cultural productions.
This talk will take place over Zoom and live subtitles will be provided by Stagetext.
Magnifying Miniatures
Online (Zoom) > 26.02.2021
Join Karen Hearn for a magnified look at some of her favourite miniature portraits by Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver from The Portland Collection, when she will reveal the secrets and stories of these intimate images from over 400 years ago. Previously a Curator at Tate, and author of the book Nicholas Hilliard, Karen chairs the Harley Foundation Curatorial Advisory Group. She is a specialist in 16th- and 17th-century British and Netherlandish art, has curated many exhibitions, and writes and lectures extensively. Karen devised and curated the ground-breaking exhibition “Portraying Pregnancy: from Holbein to Social Media”, shown at The Foundling Museum in London in 2020. She has spent many years researching that little-explored subject, and wrote the accompanying book.
To register your interest please email info@harleygallery.co.uk
Please note this online discussion takes place on Zoom. Once registered, you will be provided with a link to attend the event.
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Pajama Party!
Online > 27.02.2021, 1.00 AM – 2.00 AM CET
Andrew Yamato explores the history and culture of leisurewear through the centuries. From embroidered smoking caps to silk dressing gowns to velvet Albert slippers, the venerable British menswear company New & Lingwood has been defining domestic luxury since 1865.
Yamato previously worked for Alan Flusser Custom, with whom he produced several events for The National Arts Club's FashionSpeakFriday series. He has worked as a freelance writer and filmmaker with a focus on the aesthetics of classic menswear.
Regency Aesthetics: The Costumes, Locations, and Décor of Bridgerton
Online > 01.03.2021, 6.00-7.00pm CET
When Bridgerton hit streaming services in December 2020, history enthusiasts everywhere asked the question: how historically accurate is it? In this virtual lunchtime lecture, Michelle Fitzgerald, curator of the Johns Hopkins University Museums, will talk about the material world of the show and what it might be able to teach us about the real early nineteenth-century.
Michelle Fitzgerald is curator at the Johns Hopkins University Museums (Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library). With research interests predominately focused on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century interiors in England and the Chesapeake, she has previously worked with collections including the Maryland Historical Society, the Maryland State Archives, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She holds an M.A. from the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture.
Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy – a great collaboration
Online > 03.03.2021, 19.30 - 20.30 CET
It’s now almost 30 years since Audrey Hepburn died, yet she has remained an enduring icon of the silver screen. Almost every week the national press uses a picture of Audrey to illustrate articles on subjects as diverse as the power of the little black dress or how to crack an egg. Her film career spanned four decades, yet she appeared in twenty-six films and was the star nineteen, but they include some of the greatest films of all time: Roman Holiday, Sabrina Fair, Funny Face, The Nun’s Story, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Charade, My Fair Lady and How to Steal a Million. Those half-dozen or so classic films remain with us as a record of a young girl, who grew from a Princess, in William Wyler’s 1953 Roman Holiday, to an Angel in Steven Spielberg’s 1989 Always.
Central to her unique look were the clothes she wore both on and off screen. For TLC’s ‘The Great Fashion Icon in Films poll’ designers, actors and critics commented on fashion's greatest movie moments and stars. At number one was Audrey Hepburn and her on and off-screen working relationship with designer Hubert de Givenchy. In this talk, Ellen will explore Audrey Hepburn’s enduring contribution to both fashion and film.
Ellen Cheshire is a freelance film writer and lecturer. She has written books on Ang Lee and Jane Campion for Supernova Books, and Bio-Pics for Wallflower Press, and a now out of print book on Audrey Hepburn. She has contributed chapters to books on Charlie Chaplin, James Bond, War Movies, Fantasy Films, Counterculture, Silent Cinema and an A Level Film Text Book.
Intellectual Property in the Fashion Industry: from Vionnet to Dior
Online > 05.03.2021, 14.30 - 15.30 CET
This is a live online event hosted by The Research Forum at The Courtauld.
This talk examines how fashion designers have used intellectual property rights to protect their creations from piracy, and to advertise the authenticity of their products. Among the numerous couturiers that have participated in this effort, the archives-based research presented in this talk focuses on the examples of Madeleine Vionnet and Christian Dior, who, along with their legal teams, pioneered the development of extensive intellectual property rights portfolios. These designers used various legal tools to protect and to market their work, including trademark, copyright, patent, trade dress, and anti-competition laws. During the interwar period, most of Vionnet’s legal action remained centred in France, but the post-war case of Dior shows how, later on, such strategies could be used on international markets. Finally, the talk questions the advantages and inconveniences of using law as a commercial instrument in the creative industries.
Véronique Pouillard is a professor of international history at the University of Oslo. She holds a PhD in history from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and she was a Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at the Harvard Business School. She is a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business. Her next book, Paris to New York. The Transatlantic Fashion Industry in the Twentieth Century, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press in May. Véronique currently leads the ERC-funded project Creative IPR: The History of Intellectual Property Rights in the Creative Industries.
The Art of Fashion Illustration
Online > 13.03.2021, 1.00 AM – 2.00 AM CET
Fashion illustrator Audrey Schilt discusses her notable career sketching and designing for some of the most revered names in fashion history
Fashion illustrator Audrey Schilt discusses her notable career sketching and designing for some of the most revered names in fashion history. Artist, designer, and illustrator, Audrey Schilt has worked with Halston, Ralph Lauren, and other leading fashion houses. Remember Jackie Kennedy’s pillbox hat? Schilt was responsible for that. Other style icons who have embraced her astonishing talent include Princess Diana, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Julianne Moore. Schilt also excels as a fine artist in other genres such as watercolor and portraiture.
The Shop Girl in Movies and Fine Art
Online > 26.04.2021, 18.00 - 19.30 CEST
This is a live online event in the 'The Moving Image as Subject and Practice in American Art, 1900-1990' series.
Session 2: Katherine Manthorne, ‘The Shop Girl in Movies and Fine Art’
Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones (1885-1968) established her reputation depicting working class women -- especially shop girls-- in paintings like Shoe Shop (1911). Lois Weber (1879-1939) was a leading silent filmmaker whose Shoes (1916) follows five and dime clerk Eva Meyer. Unable to afford decent footwear, Eva succumbed to male advances and “sold out for a pair of shoes.” Examining the shared focus of painter and filmmaker on the young, single women flooding the labour force, this paper analyses visual strategies they formulated to convey experiences of labour and longing from the perspective of their female protagonists.
Katherine Manthorne lectures and publishes widely on the Art-Film dynamic including Film and Modern American Art: The Dialogue Between Cinema and Painting (New York & London: Routledge, 2019; paperback, 2020) and several related essays: “Mexican Muralism and Moving Pictures,” “John Sloan’s Cinematic Eye,” “Experiencing Nature in Early Film: Dialogues with Church’s Niagara and Homer’s Seascapes,” “John Sloan, Moving Pictures, and Celtic Spirits,” and “Made in New Mexico: Modern Art & the Movies.” She teaches art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Bright Young Things? Fashion in the 1920s
Online > 12.05.2021, 15.00 CEST
The shortened hemlines favoured by the 'Flapper girl' of the 1920s were a logical next step in the 20th-century fashion revolution, but they bore the weight of social anxieties concerning the war's perceived effects on the relationship between the sexes.
Join Georgina Ripley, Senior Curator of Modern & Contemporary Fashion and Textiles at National Museums Scotland, to explore how the fashionable image of this era has reverberated throughout popular culture. Georgina is the editor of a forthcoming publication on the little black dress which will accompany a major temporary exhibition that opens with Coco Chanel's famous LBD of 1926, described in American Vogue as ‘the frock that all the world will wear’. Georgina is responsible for the museum's collection of fashion post-1850 and was the lead curator for the Fashion and Style gallery, which opened in 2016.