Fashion Interpretations: Dress, Medium & Meaning Symposium

Fashion Interpretations Symposium Part V

This symposium takes place online across five nights, showcasing the work of participants in 91影视/London College of Fashion AHRC-funded Fashion Interpretations: Dress, Medium & Meaning听networking project led by Rebecca Arnold and Judith Clark.听听听听

Each evening, we will present aspects of our individual and joint research into fashion and medium, exploring specific case studies from our perspectives as dress and film historians, artists, writers and illustrators, stylists and journalists.听听

We are an international, interdisciplinary network focused on the ways modern and contemporary fashion is continually reinterpreted through varied mediums, seeking to gain insight into the ways representational modes translate and reconfigure the meaning of fashion itself.听听听

This symposium is the culmination of a year-long research initiative and also marks the launch of听Archivist Addendum听鈥� a publishing听project听exploring听the nascent space between听standardised听fashion editorial and academic research.听听听

Part V: Roundtable: Archivist Addendum, Friday 4th December, 7pm 鈥� 8pm听

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Founded in 2020 by Jane Howard and Dal听Chodha, Archivist Addendum is a publishing project free from the confines of a bound periodical. With it, the duo hopes to renew 鈥� and pull apart 鈥� the听museological听concern of what the uses of the archive might be.听听听

This roundtable discussion with members of the networking project will address the dilemma of contemporary fashion publishing and the practice of sharing academic research.听听

Non-seasonal and multi-format, the inaugural issue of Archivist Addendum occupies the nascent space between听standardised听fashion editorial and arcane academe. Each project is contained within it as if a fragment of a conference that might have never happened.听

London-based writer听Dal听Chodha听is editor of Archivist Addendum. He contributes to various international fashion titles including Modern Matter,听AnOther听and Wallpaper* for which he reports on the menswear shows twice a year. He has worked on projects with brands including Burberry, MARIOTESTINO+, Kenzo, Paul Smith and听Sunspel听as well as The British Council. For more than a decade, he has shaped the curriculum at leading universities as Course Leader and Senior Lecturer in fashion communication.听

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After graduating with BA (Hons) in Fashion Design in 2000,听Jane Howard听worked in the studio of Hussein Chalayan and alongside curator and exhibition maker Judith Clark. She went on to become first assistant to David Bradshaw 鈥� then Creative Director of Prada and Miu听Miu听鈥� followed by two years with Katie Grand at POP magazine and Louis Vuitton. She was made Senior Fashion Editor at POP in 2006, a position she held for a year. In 2012 Howard co-founded the non-seasonal fashion journal Archivist. To date Archivist has published four journals collaborating with Chlo茅, Hussein Chalayan, Shirin Guild, Shelley Fox, Christopher Raeburn and Comme des Gar莽ons. The title was shortlisted for an award at the Design Museum鈥檚 Design of the Year 2015. Howard is now launching Archivist Addendum and interested in exploring projects that are free from the confines of a bound publication: 鈥業 want to continue to bridge the gap between contemporary editorial and academia.鈥�听

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