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Nameand Title: Katarina Nina Simončič, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Fashion history, textile history, Renaissance Fashion in Croatia, The linked between fashion and politics in 19th century in Croatia, interference between tradition and fashion throw centuries in Croatia heritage.
Role: Senior teaching assistant
Address:
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Textile Technology
Department of Textile and Clothing Design
Prilaz baruna Filipovica 28a
10000 Zagreb
Croatia
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Tel: 00385 1 3712 525
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Research interests / profile:
Katarina Nina Simonlčič is a Senior teaching assistant at Department of Textile and Clothing Design (Faculty of Textile Technology) University of Zagreb where she is lecturing History of textile and clothing I, II and III, Fashion of the 20th century, Contemporary Fashion, History of textiles.Having finished Textile Technology and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences with this thesis topic: The 15th century costume, the frescoes in Beram, Istria her scientific interest directs towards history of fashion. In that paper she pointed out at permeation of traditional clothing in Istria and northern part of Europe in 15th century as a result of trade routes. To complete the paper she used preserved frescoes from 15th century.
In the Department of art history at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb she attained a PhD with thesis: Fashion culture in Zagreb at the turn of 19th to the 20th. The subject of this doctoral dissertation was clothing culture in Zagreb at the turn of the 20th century. Clothing culture as a broad concept incorporates different areas such as socio-cultural environment, fashion, relationship between fashion and art, as well as relationship between fashion and Croatian cultural heritage – anti-fashion.
Reconstruction of that period was made by preserved clothing items, archival and history documents, painting compositions, photography, caricatures and fashion magazines of that time.
Her last research was linked with reconstruction of fashion of 15th and 16th century in Dubrovnik based on archival documents, paintings, drawings and graphics. She is the author of several publications related to research of culture and clothing. She was an active participant in scientific and professional conferences dedicated to History of fashion and design in Florence, Bucharest, Oxford, Dubrovnik and Ljubljana.
Biography:
Selected Publications (max 7 publications)
- “ Influence of ethno style on Croatian Fashion in Clothing in the Period of Art Nouveau”, Traditional Attire to Modern Dress: Modes of Identification, Modes of Recognition in the Balkans (XVIth-XXth Centuries), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, pp.212-232.
- Clothing object as work of art, 3. Međunarodniznanstveni simpozij ITC/DC, Book of Proceedings for the 3rd International Textile, Clothing & Design Conference, TTF, Zagreb, 2006., str. 347-356.
- Mediterranean and oriental influence on Bosnian garment through centuries,4. Međunarodniznanstveni simpozij ITC/DC, Book of Proceedings for the 4rd International Textile, Clothing & Design Conference, TTF, Zagreb, 2008., str. 1018-1022. (Mjesto i datum održavanja skupa: Dubrovnik, 5.-10.10.2008.)
- “ Clothing in Dubrovnik in the 16th Century – A Reflection of a Multicutural Center“3rd Global Conference Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues, Mansfield College, Oxford University, UK, 22-25.9.2011.