Made in Italy: re-use of fashion heritage and new digital perspectivesRSS

Wednesday 9 April 2014, 10h30-17h30
The Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre
Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London

The second International Europeana Fashion Conference, held on 9 April 2014 at the V&A, examined the fascinating intersection of fashion, heritage and the digital world.

Taking place just after the opening of the V&A’s exhibition, ‘The Glamour of Italian Fashion’, the conference examined digital fashion activities through the prism of Italy’s fashion houses, museums and archives.

The programme included talks by representatives from Italian fashion houses as well as contributions from noted fashion historians.

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10.00 Registration
10:30 Welcome: Matty Pye, V&A
10:45 THE EUROPEANA FASHION PROJECT: BRINGING FASHION HERITAGE ONLINE
          Marco Rendina, Technical Coordinator of Europeana Fashion
11:00 CURATING THE GLAMOUR OF ITALIAN FASHION 1915-2014
          Sonnet Stanfill, Fashion Curator, V & A
11:25 Refreshments
11:45 PROMOTING ITALIAN FASHION HERITAGE TODAY
          Jane Reeve, CEO of Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana
12:15 Discussion
          Chair: Sonnet Stanfill, Fashion Curator, V & A
12:45 Lunch
14:00 PITTI IMMAGINE AND ITS DIGITAL FUTURE (video not available)
          Lapo Cianchi, Head of Communication and Special Events and Pitti  Discovery Foundation
14:20 MANAGING FASHION RIGHTS: CREATOR, CURATOR, CONSUMER
          Roxanne Peters, Intellectual Property Manager/Europeana Fashion Project Manager, V&A
14:40 Refreshments
15:00 CASE STUDY: THE MISSONI ARCHIVE
          Luca Missoni
15:20 CASE STUDY: THE RUBELLI TEXTILE ARCHIVE
          Isabella Campagnol Archivist, Rubelli Textiles
15:40 CASE STUDY: THE GENESIS OF THE BULGARI HERITAGE COLLECTION
          Amanda Triossi, Jewellery Historian and Curator of the Bulgari Heritage Collection
16:00 Discussion
          Chair: Alessandra Arezzi Boza, Europeana Fashion
17:00 Close