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Capitals of Fashion: Paris vs. Florence, Rome, and Milan

Dr. Valerie Steele in conversation with Grazia d’Annunzio Dr. Valerie Steele, Director, The Museum at F.I.T. in conversation with Grazia d’Annunzio, Università Statale di Milano Maybe you have already seen Paris Capital of Fashion, the exhibition on view at the Museum at F.I.T. curated by the Museum’s director Dr. Valerie Steele. If so, don’t’ miss this talk. If you haven’t, don’t miss…

Parisian Fashion and its Global Influences: Appropriations, Circulations and Transfers

The Parisian fashion industry has always been the visible tip of an invisible web of exchanges. What we call French couture, far from being only French and influenced by French creativity and know-how, has always been a microcosm of globalization, with crucial contributions from foreigners and immigrants, transfers and hybridizations of techniques, ideas, styles, consumption habits, etc., which are often…

Cultural Heritage Practices & Critical Fashion Theory How Does (High) Fashion Interpret Cultural Heritage?

WELCOMING REMARKS: Barbara Faedda (Italian Academy) INTRODUCTION: Barbara Faedda and Lynda Dematteo SPEAKERS: Daniela Calanca (Università di Bologna): “Fashion and cultural heritage: complexity and articulations” Barbara Carnevali (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris): “Milanese style as cultural heritage: fashion, architecture, design” Emanuele Coccia (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris): “Dior and the invention of Frenchness as…

Dior and His Decorators

Design historian Maureen Footer and fashion expert, TV producer, and award-winning author Marie-France Pochna will be discussing Footer’s latest book, Dior and His Decorators: Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy, and the New Look (Vendome Press), the first in-depth account of the two Parisian interior designers associated with Christian Dior. Eloquently written and beautifully illustrated, it recounts the evolution of Dior’s aesthetic as a fashion…