• Fashion & Food

    • Fashion & Food

    • 25 June 2009, from 09:30 AM to 4 :30 PM

    • Type: Symposium
    • Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, SW1
    • Abstract:
      This symposium offers food for thought about the celebratory and contradictory nature of fashion’s relationship with all things edible.

      While haute cuisine and haute couture offer elevated examples of how produce, products and processes can be combined and
      consumed as cultural confections, we retain a taste for cheap clothes and inexpensive food. The changing style of our eating habits can be traced amongst other things to the discourse of creative cooking and entertaining promoted by fashion magazines, yet these same titles stand accused of peddling fashionable diets and the denial of food as a source of pleasure
      and possibility.

      Come, witness the smorgasbord of speakers and the delights of discussion.

      To book a space or for further information RSVP to m.widerberg@fashion.arts.ac.uk.
    • Magic & Fashion

    • Magic & Fashion

    • 20 May 2008, from 2:00 PM to 7 :00 PM

    • Type: Symposium
    • Venue: ICA, The Mall, London
    • Abstract:
      Magic and Fashion is an exchange of ideas, illusions and fabrications about the relationship between sorcery and style.

      While they may appear as an unlikely pairing, the two crafts share themes of fantasy and fakery, trickery and emulation; and their productions- now you see them, now you don’t – are methods of secrecy and materializations of disbelief.

      Bringing together art directors, fashion theorists, film historians, dress curators, fashion designers, performance artists and exhibition makers, the afternoon will raise many voices.

      Magic and Fashion is the Annual Symposium of the Research Centre for Fashion, the Body and Material Cultures (University of the Arts London) in collaboration with the Centre for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University.
    • Untying the Ribbon

    • Untying the Ribbon

    • 31 May 2007

    • Type: Symposium
    • Venue: London College of Fashion, John Princes Street, Rootstein Hopkins Space
    • Abstract:
      Exploring ways in which academic and practice lead researchers engage with collections and archives, in particular how the identification of representation becomes a point of reference or inspiration. Speakers discuss their current projects with public and private collections: Amy de la Haye; Karen Young; Charlotte Hodes; Pamela Church Gibson; Simon Fraser; Oriole Cullen and Jeff Horsely. Chaired by Alistair O Neil