Stylists and designers look to the past to seek inspiration for their latest creations. We reference the past to spark our imagination for new ideas, but more often we look back to identify those timeless themes that remain valuable for the present and into the future.
Therefore vintage styles, designer creations and historic fashion collections will be just some of the many topics presented at Costume Colloquium III: Past Dress – Future Fashion to be held November 8-11, 2012 in Florence, Italy .
The international, interdisciplinary and intercultural structure of Costume Colloquium promotes a lively exchange of knowledge on a full range of ideas and interests. The conference topics and themes of Past Dress – Future Fashion are appealing to professionals and academics as well as amateurs and students and will include the following:
Interpreting Fashion of the Past in the Past
Returning to the Future: Inspirations and Influences of Past Traditions in Fashion Today
Rediscovering Historical Techniques, Tastes and Trends
Collecting Fashion: Aims and Accessibility
Learning from Dress Collections and Fashion Documents
Conserving, Preserving and Displaying Dress and Costumes
Recycling, Repurposing and Wearing Vintage and Dress of the Past
Reconstructing and Reproducing Historical Clothes
Dressing Performers for the Performing Arts: Designers, Creations and Fashion
Watch the full program online
SESSION IX: Dressing Performers for the Performing Arts: Designers, Creations and Fashion Influences
• MICHELLE TOLINI FINAMORE – Boston, Massachusetts, USA (Curatorial Research Associate in the Department of Textile and Fashion Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts)
Venus in Finery: The Seductress of Silent Cinema
• RICHARD TORREGROSSA – New York, New York, USA (Journalist and Author)
Looking To Past Icons for Contemporary Inspiration:
Cary Grant and the Revival of Bespoke Tailoring
• BONNIE KRUGER – Saint Louis Missouri, USA (Costume Director/ Professor of the Practice Washington University Performing Arts Dept.) with Holly Irvine Poe Durbin, California, USA (Professor, Head of Costume Design, University of California, Irvine)
“I Don’t Dress Movie Stars, I Dress Characters”
The Exceptional Career of Costume Designer Ann Roth
• CHARLOTTE OSSICINI – Bologna, Italy (PhD in Theatrical and Cinema Studies, Universita’ di Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum)
Performing Vintage: The Costumes Archive of the Teatro delle Albe
