THE COSTUME SOCIETY CONFERENCE

MANCHESTER 8-10 JULY 2016

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PROGRAMME – FASHION AND DEMOCRACY?

Friday 8 July
2:00 Tour 1: Tour of Textile Conservation Centre, People’s History Museum, Leftbank, Spinningfields, Manchester (approx. 15 mins walk from Novotel)
Duration 1 hour. All tours meet in the reception 5 mins before the start of the tour where a member of staff will collect you
3:00 Tour 2: Tour as above
4:00 Tour 3: Tour as above
5-6:30 Weekend delegates register main foyer, Novotel
7:00 Welcomedrinks Novotel, 21 Dickinson Street
8:00Optional dinner Novotel (self-funded)
Saturday 8 July
09:20 Self Registration Saturday day delegates, Grand Hall, Whitworth Art Gallery
ALL DELEGATES TO ENTER VIA ENTRANCE ON DENMARK ROAD
09:30 Welcome Deirdre Murphy, Chair, The Costume Society Deirdre Murphy has been Chairman of the Costume Society since 2014. She is Senior Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, where she is responsible for the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection and has curated exhibitions about royal and court dress. She lectures on a variety of fashion history subjects at London College of Fashion, Central Saint Martins and Leeds University
SESSION ONE: CHAIRED BY Anthea Jarvis
Session title: Needlework pattern books/democracy: couture/wholesale in the 1900-1966 period
09:35SPEAKER Lisa VandenBergheMA Candidate, Concordia University, Montreal ’Early Modern Needlework Pattern Books: Designs for Democracy’
10.05 SPEAKERSuzanne RowlandLecturer and PhD Candidate, University of Brighton 'The Rise of the Fashionable Mass Produced Blouse: 1890-1918, design, manufacture and consumption.''
10.35 SPEAKERLiz Tregenza Vintage Fashion Specialist and PhD candidate, University of Brighton: 'Avenue Montaigne in Market Street - Adapting Parisian couture for the British ready-to-wear market, 1934-1966.'
11.05 Q&A
11.15 Refreshments
SESSION TWO: Chaired byDr Jennifer Harris
11:35 KeynoteSpeaker Dr Philip Sykas
Research Associate, Manchester Metropolitan University,‘Maintaining a distance: fashion in the wake of Manchester's calicos’
12:25 Q&A
12:30FASHIONFOCUS 2016Introduced by Dr Jennifer Harris
Speaker Alison OddeyProfessor of Visual Culture & Contemporary Performance College of Arts, University of Derby, Visiting Professor at Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Italy, Editor of International Journal SCENE ‘Fashion/Costume/Dress: Performing Women’
12.50 Q&A
12.55 LUNCH
SESSION THREE: CHAIRED BY Deirdre Murphy
Session Title; From Royalty to Post WWII Reconstruction
13:45 Dr Marie McLoughlin, Senior Lecturer, University of Brighton: ‘Fashion,Democracy and the unforeseen consequences of the UK’s Utility scheme in post-war reconstruction’
14:15 Keynote Speaker Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator, Historic Royal Palaces: 'Royalty and Fashion over 500 years’
15:05 Q&A
15:15 Refreshments
15.35 Split into 2 groups: Study Centre/Gallery (25 mins per tour)
SESSION FOUR: CHAIRED BY Janet Wood
16:30 Speaker: Clair Hughes, Author:‘The Boater: The Hat that Made Luton’
17.00SOAPBOX
Kayt Turner, Former Costume Designer for Television: Quarry Bank Mill
17.20 Q&A
17: 25 DEPART
19:00 Pre dinner drinks cash bar in Novotel
20.00 Dinner in Novotel Restaurant
21:30Launch Mentoring Programme/Networking event – all delegates please wear your name badges for this event
Sunday 10 July
09.20 Sunday Day Delegates self register Grand Hall, Whitworth Art Gallery
ALL DELEGATES ENTER VIA DENMARK ROAD
09.30 Society Annual General Meeting
SESSION FIVE: CHAIRED BYProf Lou Taylor
Session Title: Fashion, democracy and national identity.'
10.00 SPEAKERAnthony Bednall,Associate Head of Department of Apparel,Manchester Metropolitan University: ‘Re-Make, Re-Model, Re-Define; Fashioning A Nation’s Identity’
10.30 SPEAKERS Marie Melchior, Assistant Prof.,The Saxo Institute University of Copenhagen written withTrine Brun Petersen, University of Southern Denmark: 'Challenge! Unpacking the Connections and Disconnections between Fashion and Democracy through the Study of Branding Danish Design and Danish Fashion during the 20th and early 21st centuries.'
11:00 Q&A
11.05 Refreshmentsand viewing Patterns of Fashion in Study Centre
SESSION SIX: CHAIRED BY Dr Shaun Cole
11.25Keynote Speaker: Prof John Styles
Research Professor in History,University of Hertfordshire, Honorary Senior Research Fellow,Victoria and Albert Museum ‘Fashion to a Timetable: Re-scheduling European Fashion in an Era of Expanding Markets, 1500-1800’
12.15Q&A
12:20 Lunch and Patterns of Fashion viewing in Study Centre
13:10Patterns of Fashion AwardIntroduced by Liz Booty, judged by John Bright, Founder and Managing Director, Cosprop
SESSION SEVEN: CHAIRED BY Alexandra Kim
Session Title: Fashion, Democracy and 1960s Britain
13.25 SPEAKER Dr Felice McDowell, Associate Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies, London College of Fashion‘How to get the London model-girl look’: democratising and disciplining female citizens in post-war Britain.'
13.55 SPEAKER E-J. Scott, Part-time Lecturer University of Brighton, Assistant Costume Curator, Killerton NT, 'Poor Old Crimplene: The Missing Place of the Synthetic Scene Stealer Rediscovered in Concetta Trotta's Everyday Wardrobe -1964-68.'
14.25Q&A
14.30Board coaches on Denmark Road promptly. Split into 2 groups (coach rows 1-7 Fashion and Freedom/coach rows8-14 Vogue 100 Exhibition)
Fashion and Freedom: Manchester Art Gallery Introductory talk by Jenna Rossi-Camus, exhibition curator
14:45 Welcome all delegates Atrium, Manchester Art Gallery by Jenna Rossi-Camus
14:55 Self-Guided tours commence. First introduction in Fashion and Freedom
35 mins per exhibition with refreshments at 15:35 Row 1-7/15.55Row 8-14 in The Drawing Room, Ground floor
16:15 Self-Guided tours commence. Second introduction in Fashion and Freedom
17:00 Depart for Manchester Piccadilly* and city centre
*During tours coach will collect luggage from Novotel
The Costume Society would like to thank the Advisory Panel to this conference:-