Fashion History
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This dissertation provides an examination of the cultural significance of mannequins during the interwar years. As women grew increasingly visible outside of domestic roles subsequent to the First World War and emerging... more
The paper would give information about a first description of Rosa Genoni and Alfredo Podreider (Genoni's husband) archive carried out between 2015 and 2016 under the supervision of Lombardy So-printendenza archivistica (regional archive... more
What is fashion? Where does it come from? Why has it come to permeate modern life? In the last half century, questions like these have drawn serious academic reflection, resulting in a new field of research-fashion studies-and generating... more
Sonia Delaunay’s simultaneous dress of 1913 incorporates a heterogenous variety of materials in its patchwork structure, which includes both fur and fabrics of different weights and colours. By focusing on the relationship between art,... more
Édition établie, présentée et annotée par Bruno Ligore, préface de Flavia Pappacena, avec un essai d'Audrey Gay-Mazuel, conservatrice du patrimoine au musée des Arts décoratifs de Paris
In The Proceedings of the 2nd Scientific Symposium on Neo-Hellenic Ecclesiastic Art, 26-28 November 2010, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Dept. of Theology, School of Theological Studies/ Byzantine and Christian Museum... more
The paper looks at dandyism in Europe of the Nineteenth century and aims to offer a structural description of dandyism as a cultural semiotic system encompassing fashion, techniques of the body, emotional discipline and behavioral... more
The key message of this book is: clothing matters. And it is not just that clothing matters for people who enjoy fashion, but that across time, space and culture, for man, woman and child, clothing and appearance is a fundamental way in... more
The use of material culture methodologies within the historical discipline has prompted scholars to redefine how and what we might consider primary source material. Subsequently, objects and their ‘process of making’ have come to play a... more
Architectonic is a hybrid experiment which raises questions within the field of inter-disciplinary research. The study explores the opportunities that the dynamic between the cross-fertilization of architecture and fashion approaches may... more
Review of Fashion and Postcolonial Critique, Sternberg Press 2019.
This research paper was for the completion of the "Materiality of Fashion" course instructed by Professor Sarah Scaturro, previous Head Conservator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Introduction: In the... more
Fashion and Feminism, Rosa Genoni, Italy, Fashion, politics and National Identity
Les taillades, vaste gamme d’incisions opérées sur les étoffes, sont un reflet de l’impact de la réglementation protocolaire et somptuaire sur la créativité des tailleurs pour garantir l’originalité de paraître de leur noble clientèle.... more
The article examines Edward Linley Sambourne’s cartoon series ‘Mr. Punch’s Designs After Nature’ which appeared in Punch from the late 1860s onwards. The images show women morphing into animals and birds, or wearing them as exaggerated... more
Final paper for History of Modern East Asia: Politics, Society, and Daily Life Experience 2.0
in Places and Spaces of Fashion 1800-2007, ed. John Potvin (Routledge, 2009)
At the turn of the twentieth century, the sampling market is moving from a trade-based industry to a service-oriented contemporary of the rise of the consulting and advertising businesses. The Parisian economy in the clothing industry is... more
The Symington Collection of Corsetry, Foundation and Swimwear held by Leicestershire County Museums Service is well known for its corsetry, but a lesser known fact is that it also contains over 450 bras made by both Symington and... more
Este artículo pretende analizar la comercialización de los trastornos mentales en la industria de la moda re-conceptualizando el consumo como seguimiento basado en la identificación social. El propósito de este análisis es profundizar en... more
Negli ultimi decenni si sono moltiplicati gli eventi, pubblici e privati, a cura di associazioni, gruppi storici e/o enti cittadini, che usano la Storia come sfondo sul quale tratteggiare le proprie attività. In Italia, grazie anche alle... more
Étude approfondie de l’iconographie textile et vestimentaire du portrait de François Ier peint par Jean Clouet afin de proposer une relecture d’une herméneutique plus complexe que ne l’ont laissé penser les recherches fondamentales de... more
Pam Cook asserts, in her analysis of costume design, that “clothing marks the threshold between the body and the outside world, between private and public. Fashion… it is both self-expression and social pressure, compelling us to... more
Friends of Robert Browning, Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde, the aesthetes Katherine Bradley and her niece Edith Cooper were the Gilbert and George of the Victorian fin de siècle. Together they were the male poet ‘Michael Field’, and they... more
This paper discuses about the democratisation and the exclusivity of fashion at the end of the 19th century.
Repaso de una historia de la moda española desde el Renacimiento a Zara, estudiando la perspectiva nacional de la misma. Incluye primera y última página.
Hollywood Costume designing and a brief study about costumes of movie "Marie Antoinette"
to cite: "We Share What We Exhale: A Short Cultural History of Mask-Wearing." Times Literary Supplement, May 1, 2020, pages 22-24.
Book review. Michael Carter: Being Prepared: Aspects of Dress and Dressing. Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2017, 210 pp., ISBN 978-1-9221-8694-2. The meanings of dress, clothing and fashion are so intermingled nowadays that it is hard to... more