Sartorial
Style
Saturday 18 March,
11.00 – 16.30
Programme:
10.30 Registration
11.00 Welcome,
Matilda Pye, Learning Academy, V & A
11.05 Real men DO
wear pink! Masculine fashion before 1800
Susan North, Curator
17th & 18th Century Fashion V&A
11.50 Samurai rogues
and merchant dandies: men’s fashion in Japan
Anna Jackson, Keeper
Asian Department V&A
12.25 Sir Roy Strong
CH, Constructing identity through clothing
Ben Whyman, Manager
of the Research Centre for Fashion Curation, UAL
13.00 Lunch Break
14.00 Mark Powell in
conversation with Paul Gorman
14.45 Refreshments
15.10 The Story Of
The Face
Paul Gorman,
Journalist and Author
15.40 North:
Identity, Photography, Fashion
Adam Murray,
Academic, Photographer and Curator
16.30 End
The programme is
subject to change without warning
Speakers Biographies
Dr Susan North is
Curator of Fashion, 1550-1800 at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Anna Jackson is
Keeper of the Asian Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She
has
particular
responsibility for the Museum’s collection of Japanese textiles and
dress and has
published widely on
the subject. Another research interest is the cultural relationship
between
East Asia and the
West and in 2004 she was the co-curator of the exhibition Encounters:
the
meeting of Asia and
Europe 1500-1800. More recently she has published on the history of
international
exhibitions and was the curator of Maharaja: the splendour of India’s
royal
courts, a major
exhibition staged at the V&A in 2009 which subsequently toured to
Germany,
North America and
Beijing. She published Kimono: The Art and Evolution of Japanese
Fashion in
autumn 2015, and is
a core participant in the AHRC-funded Fashion and Translation
research
project.
Ben Whyman is
manager of the Research Centre for Fashion Curation based at the
University
of the Arts London,
where he project manages and researches for exhibitions, publications
and
events on museology
and fashion curation. He has presented his research at conferences,
and
has had work
published, including a chapter on couturier Hardy Amies for London
Couture:
British Luxury
1923-1975 (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2015), appendixes for The
House of
Worth: portrait of
an archive (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2014) and the Archivist
magazine
(2015). Ben is
currently undertaking a part-time PhD (2012-2018) on material
culture, menswear
and life-writing.
His research critically evaluates three personal menswear collections
housed
in the V&A
Museum and the Fashion Museum, Bath, evaluating if and how a
collection of
artefacts of dress
(including prosaic items such as shirts, belts, shoes) can augment an
understanding of
character and amplify the life stories of the men who wore them. It
explores
life-writing and
biography, material culture, the power of memory and the act of
remembering.
Mark Powell was
established in 1985 and is now one of London’s most influential
bespoke
tailors and a
one-off in the world of international haute couture. He’s a man who
has
maintained an
independent, unique vision for more than three decades, a sartorial
vision that
remains focused on
the marriage of street style and flare to the traditions of Savile
Row. His is
a high style and, to
borrow a quote from American man of letters Gay Talese, Powell is an
“artist with a
needle and thread”. It’s the sharp end of menswear, realised with
old world
panache.
Powell’s continues to be sought by an amazing client list from the worlds of film, television,
Powell’s continues to be sought by an amazing client list from the worlds of film, television,
music and sport,
including George Clooney, Harrison Ford, Mick and Bianca Jagger,
David
Bowie, George
Michael, Bryan Ferry, Naomi Campbell, Tom Jones, Jonathan Ross, Vic
Reeves,
Usher, Frank
Lampard, Goldie, Morrissey, Kevin Rowland, Keith Flint from The
Prodigy, The
Killers, film
director Joe Wright, Keira Knightley, Phil Daniels, Jonathan Rhys
Meyers, Sean Bean
and, more recently,
Sir Bradley Wiggins, Martin Freeman and Paul Weller.
Paul Gorman is a
blogger, writer and commentator on visual culture. His books include
Straight with Boy
George and The Look: Adventures in Rock & Pop Fashion. His book
The Story
Of The Face is
published by Thames & Hudson this autumn and he is currently
working on the
biography of the
late cultural iconoclast Malcolm McLaren. See Paul Gorman's
blog:
www.paulgormanis.com
Adam Murray is an
academic, photographer and curator based in Manchester and co-founder
of photography
collective Preston is my Paris. His practice and research is rooted
in
photography, fashion
and visual culture with particular emphasis on the regional identity
of
Northern England.
His most recent project is North: Identity, Photography, Fashion
co-curated
with Lou Stoppard in
collaboration with SHOWstudio and Open Eye Gallery. North: Identity,
Photography, Fashion
explores the way the region is depicted, constructed and celebrated
in
select photographs,
artworks and fashion collections. The show brings together collective
visions of the
North, unpicking the tropes and themes that appear regularly in
design and
media and takes into
account the rich cultural history of the region.
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