The Art of Couture Embroidery Live
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Venue:
Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
Led by former Birkbeck student and fashion historian, Robert Ossant and his collaborator Jessica Pile, this session introduces fashion as a form of visual and material culture, showing how methods commonly used in art history can be applied to garments and textile surfaces.
Is fashion an art form, and can an embroidered garment be approached in the same way we might analyse a painting or a sculpture? This session explores what happens when art-historical methods of looking are applied to haute couture embroidery. Through close visual analysis, biography and material study, the session examines embroidered couture garments alongside traditions of sculpture, decorative arts and material practice, asking how meaning, authorship, labour and technique operate within fashion objects when examined with the same critical tools used in art history. Led by art and fashion historian Robert Ossant and embroidery specialist Jessica Jane Pile, the session is structured as an illustrated talk with live material demonstration and audience discussion. Short presentations introduce each designer, followed by joint analysis of selected collections. Each case study concludes with a detailed examination of the embroidery and craftsmanship of a single garment, focusing on technique, materials and atelier processes.
Contact name: Sue Wiseman
Speakers-
Dr Dorigen Caldwell
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Chair
- Jessica Pile
- Robert Ossant
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