ITALIAN FASHION: YESTERDAY, TODAY, and TOMORROW
October 11th, 2013
At
The Italian Academy - Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
LIBRARY, Third Floor
Special issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Editor John Davis, University of Connecticut, Storrs to be published in Spring 2014
Guest editor, Eugenia Paulicelli, Queens College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Program & Speakers:
Introduction: 9:30-9:45, John Davis, Eugenia Paulicelli, and Ernest Ialongo
Yesterday: From the Risorgimento, Fascism and the Launch of “Made in Italy”
Session I: 9:45-11:15
Moderator: Jane Schneider, Anthropology, The CUNY Graduate Center, Emerita
Gabriella Romani, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Seton Hall University:
-“Fashioning the Italian Female Character: the Risorgimento and its ‘cappello alla calabrese’.”
Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY:
-“The Italian ‘New Woman’ in Fashion Magazine Photography of the 1930s.”
Emily Braun, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY:
-“Making Waves: Giacomo Balla and Emilio Pucci.”
Break: 11:15-11:30
Discussion: 11:30-12:30
Lunch Break: 12:30-2:00
Session II: 2:00-3:00
Moderator: David Forgacs, New York University
Carlo Marco Belfanti, Department of Social Sciences, University of Brescia:
-“Renaissance and Made in Italy. History as an Intangible Asset for the Fashion Business.”
Calvin Chen, Associate Professor of Politics, Department of Politics, Mount Holyoke College:
-“Made in Italy (by the Chinese).”
Discussion: 3:00-3:30
Break: 3:30-3:45
Italian Fashion: Exhibitions, History, Curating and Journalism. New Directions.
Final Session: 3:45-5:15
Moderator: Michael Blim, Anthropology, The CUNY Graduate Center
Sonnet Stanfill, Victoria & Albert Museum and curator of the upcoming exhibition on Italian Fashion in Spring 2014:
- “The Dressmaker s art: the role of the sartorial in post-war Italy.”
Patricia Mears (Deputy Director of the Museum at FIT) and Bruce Boyer (author and menswear expert): Co-curators of the upcoming FIT exhibition: “Elegance in the age of crisis: Fashions in the 1930s” (Spring 2014); and Boyer: “The Neapolitan School: A Study in Deconstruction.”
Grazia d’Annunzio , New York Special Project Editor, Vogue Italia, USA:
-“The Anna/rchist Piaggi: 50 years of style.”
Discussion: 5:15-6:00
Photos of the conference are available at this link.