Panel 13: Designing for collections (II) :
Fashion, photography, decorative arts

This presentation was available for the period of the conference only
(1-11 September 2020)

Marlene Van-de-Casteele (National School of Decorative Arts (ENSAD)/Atelier Chardon Savard, France)
Fashioning Beaton Portraits:1928-1968 exhibition

This paper focuses on the Beaton Portraits:1928-1968 exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery in London (November 1968 – March 1969). As the retrospective of the British photographer’s 40 years’ career, this exhibition represents a major case in the history of photography – and fashion photography, more…

Jihane Dyer (Royal Holloway, University of London/Museum of London, UK)
Re-fashioning the London Museum: the making of Mary Quant’s London , 1973

Mary Quant’s London (1973) was the final exhibition to be held at the London Museum. Presenting the remarkably recent work of the Swinging London fashion designer against a backdrop of post-war urban change, it was staged on the eve of a pivotal transformation for the sixty-year-old institution housed in Kensington Palace. more…

Lucie Lachenal (Independent)
Reconstructing the exhibitions of the Royal Manufactory of Sèvres through the archives (1814-1850)

In 1814, Alexandre Brongniart, the director of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory of Sèvres, asked the Count of Blacas for permission to re-establish a tradition of the Ancien Régime: exhibitions and sales of Sèvres porcelain in the King’s apartments on New Year’s Day. more…

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