Dear all,



We are pleased to share the provisional programme for our upcoming international conference, Sewing Reality: Fashion in Non-Fiction Media at the University of Bedfordfordshire on 9th June 2018.



Sewing Reality aims to discuss the interconnection between fashion and media industries, the audiences of factual still/moving images about fashion, as well as the past, the present and the future of fashion documentaries.



Registration is still open and can be accessed here: https://www.beds.ac.uk/sewingreality/registration  Please contact me if you require further information. Thank you



Kind regards

Elena Caoduro





9.30 –

9.50



Registration & Refreshments





9.50 –

10.00







Welcome by Alexis Weedon (University of Bedfordshire)





10.00-

11.30



Panel 1A

Fashion Documentaries



“Have Fun: Fashion Matriarchies”

Rona Murray (University of Lancaster)



“Muses, Mythology and The First Monday in May”

Daisy Richards (University of Warwick)



  “A maverick on the streets: Bill Cunningham, photography and New York fashion”

Karen Ritzenhoff (Central Connecticut State University)



Panel 1B

The Pleasure of Sewing



“Bringing up the Subject of Sewing”

Laurel Foster (University of Portsmouth)



“‘I should have stayed at home and finished the hem on my skirt’: Sewing, domesticity and distinction in teenage girls’ magazines of the 1970s and 1980s”

Johanne Knowles (Liverpool John Moores University)



“Bunty Cut-Out Goes to Art College”

Nickianne Moody (Liverpool John Moores University)



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Poster

Rosie Steele (Liverpool John Moores University)









11.30 –

12.30





Panel 2

Fiction/Factual Fashion Exchanges



“Stitching authority”

Rachel Velody (University of Creative Arts)



“Fashion Cinemas and Representation”

MariaEmanuela Messina (Independent Scholar)





12.30 –

13.30





Lunch



13.30 –

14.30









Keynote Address



“Fashion, Celebrity and Ageing: Three Documentaries”

Pamela Church Gibson (London College of Fashion, University of the Arts)







14.30 –

15.30



Panel 3

Capturing the Fashion ‘Real’



“HUMAN SEE, HUMAN DO: A case study exploration   of the para-social interaction between celebrity blogger and fashion consumer”

Mark Pickering (Anglia Ruskin University)



“Shooting fashion: the double-bind of a non-fiction approach to Paris Fashion Week”

Boel Ulfdotter (Gothenburg University)





15.30 –

15.45



 Refreshments





15.45 –

17.30





Panel 4

Fashioning the Archive



“Call to fashion reality: a closer look at Istituto Luce Archive fashion cinejournals (1939-1941)”

Silvia Vacirca (Sapienza University, Rome)



“Documenting Fashion Histories on the BBC, 1989-2014: Temporality and Cultural”

Jihane Dyer (Royal Holloway, London)



“The Fashion of East and West in German Cinema Newsreels”

Sigrun Lehnert (University Hamburg)



“The Italian Ready-to-wear Fashion through Carousels”

Giulia Caffaro (University of Bologna)





17.30



Final remarks