Fashion in the Age of Louis XIV

Arranged by Kathryn Norberg, UCLA,
Sandra L. Rosenbaum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
and Michael J. Hackett, UCLA.

June 10-11, 2005– at the Clark Library


Friday, June 10 _______________________

9:00 A.M.

Coffee

9:30 A.M.

Session I – The Folio
Victoria Blyth-Hill, Conservation Center, LACMA
Chair

Sandra L. Rosenbaum, LACMA
Introduction to the LACMA Folio

Soko Furuhata, LACMA
The LACMA Folio

with contributions by:
Victoria Blyth-Hill, LACMA
Marco Leona, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chail Norton, LACMA
Marc Walton, LACMA

Marcia Reed, Getty Research Institute
Fashion in Prints

Kathleen Nicholson, University of Oregon
Fashioning Fashionability in the Ancien Régime

1:00 P.M.

Lunch

2:00 P.M.

Session II – Creation & Diffusion
Lynn Felsher, Curator Textiles, Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology
Chair

Paula Radisich, Whittier College
Cris de Paris and Fashion

William Ray, Reed College
History, Identity, and the Concept of Fashion

Françoise Tétart-Vittu, Musée Galliera, Paris
What is a Fashion Plate in the Seventeenth-Century? Suggestions for Analysis and Hypothesis of Studies about this Not-well-defined Product

 

Saturday, June 11 _______________________

9:30 A.M.

Coffee

10:00 A.M.

Session III – French Fashion Abroad
Patrice Marandel, Center for European Painting & Sculpture and Senior Curator, LACMA
Chair

Jutta Bäumel, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Kings as Models – Models for the King. French Fashion in the Royal Wardrobe, Riding Equipment, Coaches and State Apartments of Augustus the Strong (1670-1733), Prince Elector of Saxony

Jennifer Jones, Rutgers University
Illegitimacy and Fashion in the Court of Louis XIV

Hannah Greig, AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, Royal College of Art, London
The World of Fashion in London

12:00 P.M.

Lunch

1:30 P.M.

Session IV – Fashion in Literature & Opera
Kathryn Norberg, UCLA
Chair

Malina Stefanovska, UCLA
The Fashion Run Seen from the Backstage: Saint-Simon’s Memoirs of the Versailles Court

Susan McClary, UCLA
Lully and the Fashioning of French Opera


3:45 P.M.

Reception

5:00 P.M.

Session V - Performing Fashion
Michael J. Hackett, UCLA
Emma Lewis Thomas, UCLA
Maxwell Barr, UCLA

with Musica Angelica

Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
Janet Strauss, violin
Denise Briesé, viola de gamba
Charles Sherman, harpsichord

and

Susan Gladstone, dancer

 

 


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