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San Francisco Fashion History: Fashion Oscars of 1950
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
“For their work in bringing national attention to San Francisco’s apparel industry, these folk last night won ‘Fashion Oscars’ at a banquet of the Manufactures & Wholesalers Association. Left to right, front row, Cyril Magnin, vice president of Joseph Magnin Stores; E. C. Lipman, president of Emporium-Capwell Corp.; Miss Joan Bennett (who won a special [...]
Researching ‘Hollywood Sketchbook’: An Interview with Natasha Rubin (Part 2)
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
If you enjoyed the brief look into Hollywood Sketchbook: A Century of Costume Illustration from last week, you’re going to love “Part II” of my interview with Natasha Rubin, who contributed a fascinating essay to this book: Heather Vaughan: Who was your favorite person to interview for this project? Natasha Rubin: “Deborah interviewed the vast [...]
CSA Meet-Up at UC Davis: Structures, Signifiers and Society with Mary Schoeser
Monday, January 28, 2013
Yesterday I had the unique opportunity to go to a Costume Society of America Meet – Up (an informal and free event giving CSA members the opportunity to mix and mingle with their fellow enthusiasts) at the UC Davis Design Museum. Organized by past-president, Jo Ann C. Stabb, we had gathered together to see Structures, [...]
Museum of Performance & Design Rummage Sale January 26
Thursday, January 24, 2013
MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE + DESIGN First Rummage Sale in 20 years! Saturday, January 26th Veteran’s Building, Fourth Floor, MPD main gallery - Come see what treasures you could snap up for a great deal. Thousands of theatre, dance, music, opera, musical theatre, and film-related books and memorabilia as well as exhibition materials, office and audio/video [...]
Researching ‘Hollywood Sketchbook’: An Interview with Natasha Rubin (Part 1)
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Deborah Nadoolman Landis recently released the fantastic resource, Hollywood Sketchbook: A Century of Costume Illustration (Nov. 2012) as a follow-up to her Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design (2007). My dear friend Natasha Rubin has a marvelous essay in the book that provides depth as well as some unique insights into the research process [...]
9th North American Textile Conservation Conference in SF
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
CONFERENCE: “Conserving Modernity: the Articulation of Innovation,” 9th North American Textile Conservation Conference San Francisco, California November 12th – 15th, 2013 Synthetics. New ideas to old problems. Wearable art. Creative treatment solutions. Evolving installations. Collaborations with contemporary artists. These are some of the topics that will be addressed in two days of papers and posters [...]
CFP: 5th Global Conference Fashion
Thursday, December 13, 2012
5th Global Conference: Fashion Monday 9th September – Thursday 12th September 2013 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations Fashion is a statement, a stylised form of expression, which displays and begins to define a person, a place, a class, a time, a religion, a culture, subcultures, and even a nation. This inter-disciplinary [...]
Last Call for Holiday Gift Books in Fashion
Thursday, December 6, 2012
As you might have noticed, the last few weeks here at FashionHistoria have focused on book reviews. In October I began to receive a steady-stream of packages with glorious, lovely, over sized, and decadent fashion history books. I slowly, but methodically, began sharing their insides with you, starting back in October with Katherine Hepburn’s Costumes: [...]
