Schedule

9:30 am – Check-in

10:00 am – Welcome Remarks

Karen Trivette, Head of SPARC, FIT

10:10 am – Presentation of Archiving Fashion Mapping Website

Go to Fashion & Textile Collections Global Index and Map

10:15 am – The Museum at FIT: Collecting, Conserving, and Exhibiting Fashion

Presenter: Valerie Steele, MFIT

10:30 am – Asian Fashion Archive (virtual)

Presenter: Faith Cooper, Fulbright U.S. Student Program studying Brand and Fashion Management at Fu Jen University in Taiwan and studying Mandarin under the Fulbright Critical Language Enhancement

10:40 am – A Fashion Map at the National Archives of Brazil

Presenter: Maria do Carmo Rainho, National Archives of Brazil

10:50 am – Investigating the Value of UK HigherEducation Fashion and Textile Collections (virtual)

Panel Discussion:

Dr. Helena Britt

Amanda Briggs-Goode

Andrew Groves

Kevin Almond

11:15 am – Q & A with Audience

11:30 - 11:45 am – Break

11:45 am – Fashion Calendar Research Database "The Ruth Finley Collection: Digitizing 70 Years of the Fashion Calendar"

Presenter: Natalie Nudell, History of Art Department and SPARC at FIT

12:10 pm – A Product of Their Craft: The Archives of London’s Shoemakers

Presenter: Emma Treleaven, Collections Manager at Amersham Museum

12:20 - 12:30 pm – Q & A with Audience

12:30 - 1:30 pm – Lunch

1:30 pm – A Trouser-led Research Method: A Short Story (virtual)

Presenter: Dr. Erica De Greef, African Fashion Research Institute (AFRI)

1:45 pm – Seneca College Canadian Fashion Diversity Project: A Hybrid Faculty-Student Research Initiative Exploring Visibility and Equity within the Canadian Cultural Landscape

Presenter: Dr. Mark Joseph O’Connell, professor of fashion studies at Seneca College, Toronto, Canada

2:10 pm – Magnetic Media Crisis: Hidden Rare Fashion Show Videos at FIT

Presenter: Samantha Levin, FIT

2:25 pm – Singapore Fashion Histories - sgfashionhistories.net (virtual)

Presenters:

Angelene Wong, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University and Dr. Jinna Tay, National University of Singapore

2:35 pm – Q & A with Audience

2:45 - 3 pm – Break

3 pm – Preserving the Latinx Sartorial Experience Through Digital Archives

Presenter: Michelle McVicker, Museum Collections Specialist and Educator

3:25 pm – The Emilio Pucci Heritage Hub as an Activated Archive

Presenters:

Felicia Caponigri, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy, and Lucrezia Palandri, University of Insubria, Italy

3:40 pm – The Intermediary Collection: Fashion And Textile Archives in Practice

Presenter: Sarah Byrd, FIT, NYU independent archivist

4:05 pm – Curating Corporate Fashion: Employee Engagement and Brand Immersion at the PVH Archives

Presenter: Jessica Barber, Calvin Klein Historian and Senior Archivist

4:25 pm – Q & A with Audience

4:40 pm – Concluding Remarks

Natalie Nudell, FIT and Gianluigi Di Giangirolamo, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

5 pm – End of Conference