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

(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…

(1-11 September 2020)
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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