Fashion and Photography
An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Project
Friday 29th June 2018 – Saturday 30th June 2018
Palermo, Italy
Final Programme
Friday 29th June 2018
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:30
Welcome and Opening Words: Luca Lo Sicco
09:30 – 10:30
Session 1: Through the Looking Glass
Chair: Luca Lo Sicco
“Now You See Me” A History of Self Portraiture
Michael James O’Brien
10:30 – 11:00
Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30
Session 2 Photography and Ethnicity
Chair: Donna Bevan
Initiates of the Inner Circle – Fashion Photography as a New Mythogenetic Tool
Felix Abrudan
Beckham’n SaWrong
Christopher Hodge
Global Ethno-Scape Maintaining and Expressing Ethnic-Identity through Contemporary Fashion
Kencovia Jean-Baptiste
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Session 3 Then and Now in Fashion and Photography
Chair: June Jordan
The Impact of Social Media and Technology
Vanessa Khattar
Light, Shadow and Magic: Antiquarian Photographic Processes and Contemporary Photography
Elizabeth Turk
15:30 – 16:00
Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:00
Session 4 History, Culture and the Library
Chair: Jasmine Helm
Towards the Creation of the Digital Library for the History & Culture of Cypriot Dress
Noly Moissi
Portraiture and Portrait Seeing
Alessandro Giovannelli
17:00 – 17:30
End of Opening Day Discussion and Consolidation
17:30
Wine and Drinks Reception
Saturday 30th June 2018
09:00 – 10:30
Session 5 Beauty and Style presence on memories
Chair: Christopher Hodge
Capturing the Invisible – The Photograph as Evidence of Hair Styles Lost
Donna Bevan
Steven Klein – The Dark Side of Beauty
Leonardo Iuffrida
10:30 – 11:00
Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:00
Session 6 senseless and rebellious acts in Fashion
Chair: Elizabeth Turk
Performing Fashion
Theo Tyson
LPH vs LVMH
Darshan Chandekar
12:00 – 12:30
Session 7
Discussion and Morning Consolidation
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Session 8: Interactive Workshop
Textures Pop-up Lab: An Interactive Workshop on Black Fashion and Visual Culture
Tanisha Ford, Brandi Thompson Summers and Tamara Walker
15:30 – 16:00
Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:00
Session 9 Memories and traditions
Chair: Tamara Walker
A Story of Loss and Suffering: The Phenomenological Contributions of Tom Ford’s ‘A Single Man’
June Jordan
Recuerdos de Nicaragua: Remembering the Dress of Nicaragua’s Indigenous & Afro-descendant People in German & Moravian Photography
Jasmine Helm
17:00 – 17:30
Discussion and Day 2 Consolidation
17:30 – 18:00
Project Development, Closing Thoughts and Goodbyes