| ANNE WANNER'S Textiles in History / symposiums |
Costume Colloquium: A tribute to Janet Arnold Florence, November 6-9, 2008 http://www.costume-textiles.com/pages/demo_eng.asp
Hotel
Reservations: Deadline October 1st 2008
Reduced fee until
June 30, 2008 - € 440 (VAT
included) Due to the capacity of the Costume
Colloquium venues, we can accept up to 250 participants.
Registrations will be
confirmed according to the date of arrival of the
registration form and fee payment. An unpaid registration
will be not considered as finalised.
Optional post conference
excursion to Pisa (Museum
of the Royal Palace and the Cerratelli Foundation) |
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| Costume
Colloquium is an international
interdisciplinary symposium on historical dress, costume
for performance and contemporary fashion.
All facets of dress and fashion history, design and
interpretation will be explored, and the colloquium will
provide a stimulating platform where participants can
exchange ideas and information. The range of
perspectives include art history, social history and
textile conservation; designing costume for the
performing arts and living history; as well as the use of
historical dress as inspiration for contemporary fashion. The key figure in this interdisciplinary exploration is Janet Arnold – dress historian, artist, fashion designer and teacher - who pioneered research into the cut and construction of clothes from the 16th to the early 20th century. Her studies revealed invaluable information on the clothing of the past, and her publications on the sartorial details and patterns of historical dress continue to have a profound impact on many disciplines and institutions, academic and creative. Her patterns and drawings remain a primary source for designers of costume for the stage, film and television, and her research proves indispensable to art historians interpreting portraiture and genre painting, as well as to conservators for the physical analysis and identification of surviving dress. For over a decade, Janet Arnold collaborated with the conservation department of Palazzo Pitti’s Galleria del Costume in Florence, contributing her expertise on historical dress. She actively participated in the lengthy and difficult process of documenting and conserving the 16th century burial clothes from the Medici tombs, writing several publications and giving many lectures about the project. On the 10th anniversary of her untimely death, it is appropriate that Florence - city of art, fashion, theatre and so much more - will host this special symposium as a tribute to the high professional standard of Janet Arnold’s work. A number of prestigious international institutions are supporting this innovative project. Costume Colloquium will include papers, demonstrations, tours and excursions, - both in and out of town – providing participants with unprecedented access to Italian venues crucial to the study of dress history. The topics to be examined vary from the analysis of clothing in burial finds and the interpretation of dress in documents and visual images, to the re-creation of historical dress and contemporary fashion design, incorporating both theoretical and practical perspectives on these subjects. Costume Colloquium will be of interest to dress and textile curators, conservators, art and dress historians, archaeologists, costume designers for stage, film and television as well as students in these disciplines. Costume Colloquium welcomes members of the public with an interest in fashion and historical dress and offers them an opportunity to learn from and meet experts in these subjects. |
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