[Ansteorra] Florence anyone? (A tribute to Janet Arnold)

[Traci Baker]

Link: http://www.costume-textiles.com/index.htm

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Janet Arnold's pioneering research into the cut and construction of clothes
from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries provide invaluable
information on clothing from the past.  Her series of publications
entitled Patterns
of Fashion continues to make a profound impact in many fields, from the
re-creation of historic dance and other forms of re-enactment to designs for
stage, film and television.  For art historians and conservators too, her
insights have proved an indispensable aid to historical research.

For more than 10 years preceding her untimely death in 1998, Janet Arnold
collaborated with Palazzo Pitti's Galleria del Costume conservation
department in Florence.  Here she actively participated on the lengthy and
difficult project of documenting and conserving the sixteenth century Medici
burial clothes (of Cosimo I, Eleonora di Toledo and one of their sons) on
which she contributed to several publications.  Prior to this, she made
several trips to Italy, and in particular to Florence, while researching for
her books on Patterns of Fashion.

On the 10th anniversary of the passing away of this illustrious British
costume historian, Florence would like to pay homage to her work done
there.  In the plans are four days of study, lectures, on-sight tours and
visits to significant sites specifically tailored to the participants'
interests and essential to Janet's Arnold's work and to that of her
followers. A variety of presentations by designers, historians and
conservators will acknowledge the importance of Janet Arnold's work,
especially thorough her understanding of costume cut and construction,
placing it in the wider context of differing approaches through many media
to a contemporary audience.

The event will be on an international scale and involve the collaboration of
the most prestigious institutions and researchers in the fields of costume
history, conservation, costume replication and/or as many collateral fields
as time and interest permit.

The organizers are appealing not only to textile and dress conservators and
curators, art and costume historians, costume designers for stage, film and
televisions but also students in these disciplines and interested members of
the general public to attend this important and timely event.

*Starts plotting how to get to Florence*

XxX,
Elizabeta

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