Programme

1.15pm: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall Foyer

Registration & lunch reception

2.00pm: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall

Welcome and introduction to The Enterprise of Culture: International Structures and Connections in the Fashion Industry since 1945
Professor Regina Lee Blaszczyk, University of Leeds (Project Leader)

Transnational fashion: past perspectives
How fashion crosses continents and its impact on the clothes we wear
Speakers: Dr Véronique Pouillard Maliks (University of Oslo), Sonnet Stanfill (V&A, London)

Trendsetting
Fashion-textile trade fairs and their role in the fashion industry
Speakers: Dr Ben Wubs & Thierry Maillet (Erasumus University, Rotterdam)

Business Archives
The use of archival work and its practical applications for fashion research
Speakers: Ingrid Giertz-Mårtenson(Centre for Business History, Stockholm), Katharine Carter (M&S Company Archive, Leeds)

Q&A session
Professor Regina Lee Blaszczyk, University of Leeds, and Professor Barbara Townley, University of St Andrews

4.30pm: Depart for M&S Company Archive, Western Campus

Time to explore the Marks In Time Exhibition
Sustainable Fashion: Next Generation student exhibition
Refreshments and networking

 

6.00pm: Maurice Keyworth Building Lecture Theatre G.02, Leeds University Business School

Welcome
Professor Frank Finlay, Dean of the Faculty of Arts

The Colour Revolution: inaugural lecture
Tracing the relationship of colour and commerce, from haute couture to interior design, describing the often unrecognized role of colourists in consumer culture
Professor Regina Lee Blaszczyk, School of History, University of Leeds

Award to winner of Sustainable Fashion: Next Generation student competition
Presented by The Enterprise of Culture team

The Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (School of Philosophy) will be displaying a number of artefacts relating to the history of colour chemistry at Leeds after the lecture.

 

7.00pm: Maurice Keyworth Building Foyer, Leeds University Business School

Drinks reception

Opportunity to visit ULITA – An Archive of International Textiles

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