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Space for Fashion Thinking and Practice: Review, Reflect, Revise

 

As we move into our fifth year the Fashion Research Network (FRN) invite you to Review, Reflect and Revise. FRN began as a collaborative project with the aim of promoting and sharing the work of PhD and early career fashion and dress researchers; bridging the gaps and exploring the intersections between contemporary, practice based research, historical and theoretical approaches to dress.

 

From our beginnings as a small group organising a pair of events at the Royal College of Art and Courtauld Institute of Art, the Fashion Research Network has grown and developed through nearly 40 events to become a leading organisation in fashion research. FRN is a space for dialogue, exchange and experimentation about fashion and dress thinking and practice. This symposium draws on our interdisciplinary approach and brings together the themes of our discussions from the last five years to highlight future areas of collaboration, practice and dialogue.

 

The first in a series of events marking 5 years of the FRN, Space for Fashion Thinking & Practice: Review, Reflect, Revise symposium and exhibition considers the current state of interdisciplinary fashion thinking and practice. 

 

 

 

Symposium Speakers:

 

  • Miren Arzalluz and Karen Van Godtsenhoven

 

Etxepare Basque Institute and University of Deusto, Spain and MoMu Museum of the Province of Antwerp, Belgium 

Moving Bodies: Some Thoughts on Curating Balenciaga

 

  • Claire Eldred

 

Birkbeck, University of London

Archival Spaces and the Fashion Imaginary: the Multiple Lives of a Lobster Dress

 

  • Lauren N. Butcher

 

Independent Scholar

Curating the Gender Fluid Body: The Representation of Gender Diversity within Fashion Exhibitions and Display

 

  • Alessandro Esculapio

 

University of Brighton

Hussein Chalayan’s Place/Non-Place: A Case of Emotionally Durable Fashion? 

 

  • Roberto Filippello

 

University of Edinburgh

Towards a (New) Phenomenology of Fashion: Affect, Atmospheres, Queer Embodiment

 

 

  • Leren Li

 

Royal College of Art

A Silent Resistance: Rethinking Fashion in China through Chinese Hipsters – Wen Yi Qing Nian 

 

  • Krys Osei

 

Goldsmiths, University of London

Beauty, Fashion, and Feminism: An African City and the Politics of Representation 

 

  • Jenna Rossi-Camus

 

London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London

The Site-Specific Fashion Exhibition: From Period Rooms to Immersive Installations

 

  • Suzanne Rowland

 

University of Brighton

Understanding the Development of the Ready-Made Blouse Industry in the 1910s through Actor-Network Theory 

 

  • Dr Fatma Sagir

 

Albert-Ludwigs Universtität, Freiburg, Germany

Strike a Pose! Modest fashion: An Idea(l) Between Visibility and Invisibility?

 

  • Dr Diego Semerene

 

Oxford Brookes University

Tailoring and Re-Tailoring the Phallus: Anxiety, Muscle and The Early Men’s Suit

 

 

  • Richard Sorger

 

Kingston University

Building a New Technique for Fashion Embellishment; Tensegrity and the Stereometric Method

 

  • Lara Torres

 

London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London

Fashion Film Meaning-Making: The Essay Film as Critical Thought 

 

 

 

 

Exhibition Exhibitors:

 

Nathaniel Dafydd Beard, Coventry University London 

 

Kathrin Bonnar, Artist, London 

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Marloes ten Bhömer, Kingston University 

 

Claire Dawson, Coventry University London

 

Kate Eccles, Coventry University London 

 

Ruby Hoette, Goldsmiths, University of London 

 

Rafael Kouto, Designer, Switzerland 

 

Monique Lee Hylands-White, Coventry University London

 

Maria Ostropolski, University of Westminster

 

Tania Phipps-Rufus, University of Bristol and Coventry University London

 

Richard Sorger, Kingston University

 

Lara Torres, London College of Fashion 

 

Leslie Whittaker, Coventry University London 

 

Fred Willems, Coventry University London 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our partner university for this event is Coventry University London, part of Coventry University, which is ranked Gold for Teaching Excellence (TEF – Teaching Excellence Framework) and currently ranked 12th in the UK (The Guardian University Guide 2018).

 

 

(NB: Paid for tickets for this event are a donation to continuing the activities of the FRN together with covering expenses for the event. Refunds will only be given in the unlikely event the symposium and exhibition are cancelled.)

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