"The New Normal": Sartorial and Body Practices of the Quarantine Era Presentation: “My Own Private Sewing Bee - Navigating the Personal and the Public in Lockdown”
Abstract: The Covid-19 lockdown restrictions have provided me with time and space for returning to fashion-related projects and pastimes that have been literally “on the shelf”. While social distancing requires us to exist online more than ever, it also brings analogue pursuits back into the field of vision. I have been sewing almost every day since the lockdown started, and as my hoard of fabric gets smaller, and a wardrobe of clothes to wear online for the foreseeable future gets larger, I have also returned to a long-abandoned ritual of keeping a sewing journal inspired by those in museum collections. For The New Normal, I will present this work in progress, reflecting on both taking part in a tradition and on the shift to mastery-oriented goals that the pandemic has inspired in my practice.
Millennial Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals
Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
He was funny before he even existed: A satirical genealogy of the hipster
Supported by a HASS Research grant from Regent’s University London
The Costume Society 2019 Conference: Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Birmingham, UK
A Genealogy of Fashion Jokes: Graphic Satires of Aesthetic Fashion and their Legacy
Centre for Fashion Curation, UAL London College of Fashion Doctoral Lecture
Rootstein Hopkins Space, London College of Fashion
Fashion & Folly: Performance Lecture
The Anthropology of Fear
European University of St. Petersburg
Laughing in the Face of Fashion: Fear of Subcultural Styles in Punch Magazine
Wonder in the Eighteenth Century, Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (CSECS)
Niagara Falls, Canada
Fashion & Folly: Developing a Site-Responsive Fashion Exhibition for Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill
The Unique Copy: Extra-Illustration in Word and Image and Print Culture
Herzog August Library, Wolfenbuttel, Germany
Fashion & Folly, or Strawberry Hill Extra-Illustrated: A practice-led investigation of extra-illustration as a methodology for the presentation of an exhibition proposal
Supported by a UAL Student Research Fund Grant
Fashion & Humour: Strategies, Theories, Practices
New Literary Observer / Fashion Theory Russia, Moscow
Satirical / Sartorial: Political Fashion Cartoons in the New Yorker
Supported by a UAL Student Research Fund Grant
Diana Vreeland After Diana Vreeland: The Discipline of Fashion Between the Museum and Curating
IUAV Venice, Italy
Panel Discussion
Participation in a panel of emerging fashion curators and historians, discussing the approaches and legacies of Diana Vreeland in her work as both a fashion editor and fashion curator.
Developments in Dress History
University of Brighton, UK
Satirical Sartorial: Fashion Cartoons in the New Yorker 1925-2010
This paper provided an overview of my MA research in fashion curation, and was presented at a conference dedicated to the work and influence of Professor Lou Taylor.
