The Ninth Fashion Forward Symposium
EMBODIED RESEARCH:
Learning Through Material Culture
Fashion Forward presents the next installment of its symposium series, featuring experts utilizing embodied research techniques in history, archives, and performance.
Time:
August 29th, 2021
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
Platform:
Zoom (RSVP by email)
info@fashionforward.io
Suggested Donation:
$15
Fashion Forward presents the next installment of its symposium series, featuring experts utilizing embodied research techniques in history, archives, and performance.
Our Speakers
FASHION FORWARD CO-FOUNDER, FASHION HISTORIAN AND ARCHIVIST
Doris is a New York-based fashion historian and archivist. She holds an M.A. in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), and a B.A. in History and East European Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University. She is a regular author for various journals and publications, including The Psychology of Fashion and Vestoj, as well as a speaker at international venues, including Oxford University, and LIM College. She has founded and developed several private and corporate fashion archives. Most recently, Doris co-founded Fashion Forward in 2020.
PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN AND FOLK DRESS COLLECTOR
Marielle is a professional musician and teacher, and folk dress collector who enhances her study and performance practices with material culture. Marielle, who grew up between Holland and Hungary, states:
"As long as I can remember, I have had a passion for Hungarian folk clothing and for the Hungarian culture as a whole. I started to collect Hungarian folk clothing as a teenager when I started my first job, and have not stopped ever since. While collecting folk clothing, I also learn about the history of the people who wore these fantastic costumes, by doing first-have research like visiting the previous owners in their local towns and talking with them. Every costume that I own has its own personal story."
DRESS AND TEXTILE HISTORIAN
Lucy, a Dress and Textile Historian with specialisms in textiles produced in Paisley, Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the British government's Utility Clothing Scheme during the Second World War, is currently undertaking her PhD with the University of Huddersfield, England. Within her research Lucy seeks to unearth the hidden histories of individuals and groups involved in the manufacture and sale of garments and textiles, through exploring the social, cultural, political, economic and technological histories within the written record and imbued in material cultures of extant objects. Through her research interests, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day, Lucy has worked on several projects from exhibitions, displays, and archiving, to written publications, conference presentations and guest lecturing, workshop facilitation, and advising on historical costume for television.