FASHION UNRAVELED: MEMORY, WEAR AND IMPERFECTION IN DRESS (COLLOQUIUM) 

Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology and Fashion Research Network, Katie Murphy Amphitheatre in the Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center, 1st Floor,  W227 27th St. and 7th Ave. New York, NY 10001, USA.

APPARITION: THE (IM)MATERIALITY OF MODERN SURFACE (SYMPOSIUM)

Design Cultures (De Montfort University) and Fashion Research Network, Leicester Castle, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

FRN EXCLUSIVE – CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS MUSEUM AND STUDY COLLECTION TOUR

Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection Tour with Anna Buruma, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design , London, UK

ANIMATE OBJECTS: ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN PEOPLE AND THINGS (SYMPOSIUM) 

13th October 2017, Animate Objects: Encounters Between People and Things, Convened by Dr Dawn Woolley (Anglia Ruskin University) and Dr Ellen Sampson (Chelsea College of Arts and Fashion Research Network), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

PRESENT1 IMPERFECT2  FASHION SPACE GALLERY WITH AMY DE LA HAYE AND JEFFREY HORSLEY (EXHIBITION TOUR)

Present1 Imperfect2  Exhibition Tour led by Amy de la Haye and Jeffrey Horsley, Fashion Space Gallery, Centre for Fashion Curation, London College of Fashion

MAKING UP THE FEMALE FACE: PAIN, IMAGINATION AND COCO ROSIE WITH DR MORNA LAING (READING GROUP)

Chelsea College of Arts, Reading Group led by Dr Morna Laing

FRN X SOMERSET HOUSE – DR FRANCESCA GRANATA ON EXPERIMENTAL FASHION (GUEST SCHOLAR TALK)

Dr Francesca Granata on Experimental Fashion,  FRN X Somerset House collaboration, with support from I.B. Tauris Ltd. and Parsons The New School for Design.

THE SPACE BETWEEN: PSYCHE, BODY, SKIN, ENVIRONMENT (SYMPOSIUM)

Symposium organized by Fashion Research Network and Dr Azadeh Fatehrad, with Keynote Speaker Dr Fataneh Farahani, Stockholm University. Supported by Royal College of Art.

Symposium Website: https://thespacebetween2017.wordpress.com/

SPECIAL FRN READING GROUP WITH LAUREN DOWNING PETERS (READING GROUP)

 ”Stoutwear: The Fashioning of a Body and an Industry, 1915-1931,” Reading Group led by Lauren Downing Peters, PhD Candidate, Stockholm University, Sweden

THE PERSONAL, FASHIONABLE AND ARCHIVAL SPACES OF HAIR (SYMPOSIUM)

A collaboration between Fashion Research Network and Somerset House with Keynote Speaker Dr Sarah Cheang, Royal College of Art

More details visit: https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/personal-fashionable-and-archival-spaces-hair

Poster designed by Dimitra Laskou/Delta Lamda

UNDRESSED: A BRIEF HISTORY OF UNDERWEAR (EXHIBITION TOUR)

Undressed – A Brief History of Underwear, Curator’s Tour led by Edwina Ehrman, V&A Museum, South Kensington, London

ERICA DE GREEF, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (GUEST SCHOLAR TALK)

Blanket Stories: A Politics of Fashion, Visiting Scholar Guest Talk by Erica de Greef, PhD Scholar in African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa

DR. TOMMY TSE, UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (GUEST SCHOLAR TALK)

Visiting Scholar Guest Talk by Dr. Tommy Tse, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong,  a collaboration between Fashion Research Network and Coventry University London Campus (CULC) in association with The University of Hong Kong, part of #CULC Fashion’s Formatting Fashion: Thinking, Writing, Making, Speaking and Exhibiting series

MODE IN FLUX WITH WHITE LINE PROJECTS (EXHIBITION TOUR NO.2)

Mode in Flux – An Exhibition of Adaptable Fashion Innovations, Roca London Gallery, with White Line Projects curators Xenia Capacete Caballero and Fiona McKay

INSIDE JOKES: FASHION HUMOUR FOR ”EXPERTS” (READING GROUP)

Centre for Fashion Curation, London College of Fashion, led by Fashion Curator and PhD Candidate Jenna Rossi-Camus

 MODE IN FLUX WITH WHITE LINE PROJECTS (EXHIBITION TOUR)

Mode in Flux – An Exhibition of Adaptable Fashion Innovations, Roca London Gallery, with White Line Projects curators Xenia Capacete Caballero and Fiona McKay

COCKPIT ARTS, DESIGNER/MAKERS TOUR (STUDIO TOUR)

Cockpit Arts, Holborn, London

FASHION UTOPIAS (EXHIBITION TOUR)

Fashion Utopias The International Fashion Showcase 2016, Somerset House, with Niamh Tuft

MAKING AND THE SENSORY (READING GROUP)

Royal College of Art, coinciding with the School of Material Work-In-Progress Exhibition with an opportunity to view the exhibition.

SHOES: PLEASURE AND PAIN (EXHIBITION TOUR)

Victoria and Albert Museum, with assistant curator Lucia Savi

FRN IN COLLABORATION WITH FIG-2 FOS (ARTIST’S TALK AND TOUR )

ICA Studio, Artist’s Talk and Tour with FOS, a collaboration between Fashion Research Network and fig-2

(Image: FOS, Watchmaker, detail, 2012. Courtesy of the artist)

FASHION AND RACE (READING GROUP)

INIVA, Reading Group convened by Tanveer Ahmed (Open University, UK) and Erica de Greef (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

AUDREY HEPBURN: IMAGERY AND SUBSTANCE (EXHIBITION TOUR AND READING GROUP)

National Portrait Gallery, Exhibition Tour and Reading Group with special guest curator Terence Pepper

FASHION AND DIGITAL MARKETING (SYMPOSIUM)

Special FRN Early-Career Research Panel with Tania Phipps-Rufus, Amy Winters and Ed Tam

Part of Global Dialogues: Fashion Digital Marketing #FDM15 conference, supported by Fashion Research Network and X Terrace Fashion Platform

Coventry University London Campus

COLLABORATIONS, CONVERSATIONS, AND PEER RELATIONSHIPS IN FASHION

FRN Panel Presentation at Fashion, Anglo-American Conference of Historians, Institute of Historical Research

For more information, please click here.

 SONIA DELAUNAY (EXHIBITION TOUR)

Tate Modern, with curator Juliette Rizzi

SURFACES AND BOUNDARIES: THE LEGACY OF GUY BOURDIN (SYMPOSIUM)

Somerset House

For more information please click here.

Please see our Programme for a schedule of events and speakers’ biographies.

LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION ARCHIVES VISIT 

, led by Senior Research Fellow and Archive Keeper Jane Holt

 FASHIONING THE ARCHIVE (SYMPOSIUM)

Royal College of Art

For more information, please click here

THE GLAMOUR OF ITALIAN FASHION, 1945-2014 (EXHIBITION TOUR)

Victoria and Albert Museum, assistant curator Lucia Savi

DOCUMENTING FASHION: RE-THINKING THE EXPERIENCE AND REPRESENTATION OF DRESS (SYMPOSIUM)

Courtauld Institute of Art

ISABELLA BLOW: FASHION GALORE! (EXHIBITION TOUR)

Somerset House, with curator Alistair O’Neill, co-organised with the Association of Dress Historians

BETWEEN OBJECT AND IDEA: RE-THINKING FASHION SPACES (SYMPOSIUM)

Royal College of Art