ONE-DAY CONFERENCE HOSTED AT CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
How did early 20th century cinema present and represent fashion, and how does this historical material relate to contemporary fashion film? This one-day conference investigates new methods, topics and themes at the interface of three fields: media archaeology, fashion history, and film studies. The conference looks at two parallel moments of fashion and film in the early 20th and 21st centuries, when the emergence and intensification of new technologies of the image began to impact the culture and commerce of fashion. It aims to bring early cinema into conversation with current forms of digital aesthetics and to investigate its various materials, screens and genres, as well as the means of their production, circulation and consumption, that may inspire new ways to understand fashion film.
PROGRAMME
Featuring speakers from a range of disciplines spanning film, fashion and media studies, the conference includes a screening of rare early fashion film curated by Lucy Moyse Ferreira and a creative industry panel discussion chaired by Marketa Uhlirova, director of the Fashion in Film Festival. The closing plenary session pulls together the various strands of the day.
SPEAKERS
Professor Wanda Strauven (keynote speaker)
Goethe University Frankfurt
Text, Texture, Textile: A Media-Archaeological Mapping of Fashion and Film
Beatrice Behlen
Museum of London
Floating chiffon and misty tulle: the Materiality of Fashion in Motion
Nick Rees-Roberts
University of Paris – Sorbonne Nouvelle
Between Promotion and Criticality: The Paradox of Contemporary Fashion Film
PLENARY SESSION
Chris Breward (chair)
National Galleries of Scotland
Caroline Evans
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Lucy Moyse Ferreira
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Jussi Parikka
Winchester School of Art, Southampton University
Marketa Uhlirova
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London