BACK TO SCHOOL | A Fashion Symposium
Friday October 6 – Saturday October 7, 2023
New York University
34 Stuyvesant Street
Einstein Auditorium, First Floor
New York, NY 10003
DAY ONE / Friday Oct 6
9:30am
Check-in and coffee
10:00
Welcome and introduction: Rachel Lifter and Nancy Deihl
10:15-10:45
Keynote Presentation: Deirdre Clemente
From Dormitories to Department Stores: Collegians as Creators and Consumers of American Fashion
10:45-11:30
“Markets and merchandise”
Jacqueline Field: Collegians Help Bates Fabrics Select “Back to School” Styles
Brian Centrone: The College Trade: The Selling and Marketing of “America’s Best Dressed” College Men
Charles McFarlane: The Influence of Military Surplus Clothing on the American Collegiate Style 1945-1972
11:30-11:45
Short break
11:45-12:15pm
“Knit one, purl two…”
Jenise Sileo: Fashion Knits: Natural, Subversive, and Style for Vassar College
Eleanor O’Neill: Knitting as “Other”: Costume and identity on college campuses
12:15-1:00
Morning Q&A
1:00-2:30 – Lunch break
Catered lunch in The Commons, 1st floor of Barney
Sponsored by NYU Steinhardt Alumni Relations Office
2:30-3:15
“As seen on screens”
Anne Peirson-Smith: Through a glass darkly: interrogating the meanings behind the Dark Academic style trend and its mythic and material manifestations
Sarah Gilligan: “The hottest professor on campus”: Keanu Reeves, Dark Academia and fashioning ageing masculinity on the red carpet
Maureen Brewster: “It’s Not Just About the Outfits”: Fashioning Gender, Race, and Class on #RushTok
3:15-3:30
Short break
3:30-4:15
“Design and education”
Daniel James Cole: Tradition is Trending: Regional Inspiration in the fashion curriculum in Sabah
Victoria Pass: Anti-Fashion Histories Constructing Modern Whiteness
Rachel Lifter: Oral History and the Moods of Fashion
4:15-4:45 – Afternoon Q&A
DAY TWO / Saturday Oct 7
9:30am
Check-in and coffee
10:00
Welcome from Rachel Lifter and Nancy Deihl
10:15
Keynote Presentation: Reina Lewis
Is Fashion Secular? Belief, worldview, and religious diversity in fashion education
11:00-11:45
“Curricula and collections”
Sara Idacavage: Beyond the Sewing Machine: What Can the Home Economics Movement Contribute to Pedagogies of the Present?
Dina Smith-Glaviana: The History of and Early Collecting Practices within the Oris Glisson Historic Costume and Textile Collection
Lauren Peters, Wiktoria Gawor and Sophia Klun: Archive as Memory bank: Clothes and Collectors in the Fashion Study Collection
11:45-12:15pm
Morning Q&A
12:15-2:00 – Lunch break
Please ask for recommendations!
2:00-2:45
Student presentations
Maria Chammah: The Harvard Sweatshirt: Too Cool for School
Ekua Sekyere and Patrick Taylor: No Shades, No Sagging, No Do-Rags: How Dress Codes Reinforce Elitist Structures Within Academic Institutions
Jonathan Lee: The East Asian Fashion Curriculum Framework: A Proposal – for fashion design programs in higher education
2:45-3:15
Student panel Q&A
3:15-3:30
Short break
3:30-4:30
Roundtable discussion: 45 Years of Costume Studies
4:30-5:00
Afternoon Q&A and Conference Wrap-up
5:00
Closing Reception
This event is open to the public, advance registration is required
Questions?
For information: costume.studies@nyu.edu
Conference organized by Costume Studies at NYU Steinhardt
Special thanks for support and sponsorship:
Department of Art and Art Professions
NYU Steinhardt Alumni Relations Office
NYU Archives
Tammy Brown
Maura Puscheck
Ken Castronuovo
Vonetta Moses
Aisland Falconer
Fiona Kao