Programme
10.45am
Registration and tea/coffee
11.15am
The business history of the fashion industry since 1945:
a new collaborative research project sponsored by HERA II
Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Chair in the History of Business and Society, School of History, University of Leeds and Project leader for The Enterprise of Culture.
11.30am
The history of Italian fashion companies
Emanuela Scarpellini, Professor of Modern History at the State University, Milan, and director of the MIC Center for Fashion Studies
12.00pm
Incorporating business history into a fashion exhibition
Sonnet Stanfill, Curator of twentieth and twenty-first century fashion at the V&A
12.30pm
Discussion
12.45pm
Lunch and a chance to see 1980s London Fashion Exhibition
2.00pm
The Italian knitwear industry
Elizabeth Currie, lecturer and researcher specializing in fashion, art and design history.
2.30pm
The Sozzani sisters and Italy's fashion industry
Oriole Cullen, Acting Senior Curator of Fashion, V&A. Oriole specializes in twentieth and twenty first century fashion & curates the V&A’s Fashion in Motion shows.
3.00pm
The Italian textile firm Nattier
Lucia Savi, Research Assistant of the V&A’s exhibition The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945-2014.
3.30pm
Discussion and evaluation
4.00pm
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