Fashion: Now & Then

Adrian G. Marcuse Library

at LIM College

12 East 53rd Street

Friday, October 19th to

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Schedule for Friday, October 19, 2012

8:15 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. I Registration and Coffee

8:45 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. I Welcome

8:50 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. I Opening Remarks

9:00 a.m. - 9:45 I Keynote Q&A: Fashion & Interiors

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. I Presentations: Three Women

& Their Collections

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. I Presentations: The History &

Documentation of Fashion

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. I Lunch and Book Signing

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. I Presentations: Vogue Archives

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. I Presentations: International

Perspectives

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. I The Image

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. I Presentation: Fashion

Forecasting’s First Family

5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. I Closing Remarks

5:15 p.m. I Reception and Book Signing

Schedule for Saturday, October 20, 2012

8:15 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. I Registration and Coffee

8:45 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. I Welcome

8:50 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. I Opening Remarks

9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. I Ron Knoth Scholarship

Announcement

9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. I The Ron Knoth Fashion:

Now & Then Keynote Speaker

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. I Presentations: Fashion

Blogs

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. I Presentations: Fashioning

a Fashion Collection

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. I Lunch and Book Signing

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. I Presentations: New

Perspectives

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. I Presentations: Fashion and

the Consumer

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. I Panel: Oral History

(Moderated by Rebecca Collier)

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. I Panel: Style Blogs

(Moderated by Suz Massen)

5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. I Closing Remarks

5:15 p.m. I Reception and Book Signing

Biographies of the

2012 Fashion: Now & Then

participants

Xavier Aaronson

Xavier Aaronson is the creator of Babes at the Museum. He was

born in Manhattan and for the past 2 years he’s been residing in

Brooklyn. When he’s not taking photos for his website he’s writing

for Vice Magazine and Huffington Post. His next undertaking will

be publishing the Babes at the Museum book.

Glenda Bailey

Glenda Bailey has been the editor in chief of Harper’s Ba-

zaar since 2001. Under her leadership, the magazine has

won numerous awards and had enormous newsstand-sales

growth. Bazaar has won five Lucie awards, as well as five

Ozzie and four Eddie awards from Folio magazine, and it

has been named to Adweek’s Hot List and Advertising Age’s

Magazine A-List, which both recognize the 10 hottest maga-

zines in the United States. Bazaar’s covers have been

named to Time’s and Advertising Age’s best-covers lists and

have won five ASME Best Cover awards and two MIN Edito-

rial & Design awards. In 2010, Bailey was inducted into

MIN’s Hall of Fame.

Prior to Bazaar, Bailey was the editor in chief of the U.S. edition of Marie Claire for five

years and was named Adweek’s Editor of the Year. During her tenure, Marie Claire was

named one of Adweek’s top 10 hottest magazines four times and best publication by The

Delaney Report. The title was one of Capell’s Circulation Report’s best circulation per-

formers, and it was the first magazine in the U.S. to be given the Amnesty International

Media Award for journalism.

Before her move to New York, Bailey launched British Marie Claire. Under her editorship,

Marie Claire became the biggest-selling fashion magazine in the United Kingdom and

earned virtually every publishing honor, including three Magazine Editor of the Year

awards, five Magazine of the Year awards, and two Amnesty International Media awards.

Born in Derbyshire, England, Bailey was appointed Officer of the Order of the British

Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008 in recognition of her services to British journalism

and fashion in the United States.

Gabriel Baquit

Gabriel Baquit has a Bachelor’s degree in Social Communica-

tion and Advertising from University of Fortaleza (Brazil) and is

obtaining a Master’s degree in Fashion Communication De-

sign at the University of Minho (Portugal). His main fields of

academic research are fashion, visual communication and

humor. In 2007 he was awarded with two first places during

the Exhibition of Experimental Research promoted by the

Brazilian Society for Interdisciplinary Studies of Communica-

tion. In 2010 he worked as coordinator of the Brazilian fashion magazine inVoga, where

he also collaborated steadily as a columnist and photographer. Nowadays he works and

develops projects related to communication design and fashion.

Susan C. Baxter

Dr. Susan C. Baxter is an Associate Professor of Market-

ing and Chair of the Marketing & Management Depart-

ment at LIM College. Her research interest range from

diversity in advertising, consumer relationships with

brands, distance learning and student learning styles, to

the impact of HIV on global workforce. Dr. Baxter teach-

es both undergraduate and graduate courses at LIM

College. Dr. Baxter received her Doctorate of Business

Administration in Marketing from Argosy University; she

received a Master of Science degree in Psychology from

St. Cloud State University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the College

of St. Benedict.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

participants

David S. Benjamin

David S. Benjamin graduated from Georgetown University

with a degree in American Studies. He has worked as an

actor, a magician, unloading trucks, installing closets, selling

cigars, pens, vintage clothing, as a clerk in a municipal rec-

ords office, a reference librarian, an archivist, a rare books

and documents specialist, an aesthetic consultant and as a

freelance writer. He holds a graduate degree in Library and

Information Science from Long Island University’s Palmer

School as well as one in History from New York University.

He divides his time between consulting and teaching at LIM

College. His research and writing interest include post-war and contemporary American

Popular culture, 19th century American literary and intellectual history, information and

metadata-syndetic theory, as well as the critical and philosophical investigation of con-

sumer behavior. His writing has appeared in both print and on the web. He lives in New

York.

Alessandra Branca

A child of Rome and the granddaughter of a Vatican Museum art historian, interior de-signer Alessandra Branca grew up among the finest classical art and architecture in the world. She learned early that even formal beauty was meant to be intermingled with everyday life, and that the well-lived life takes place not in stiff and somber surround-ings, but in artful structures graced with a comfortable elegance and wit. Alessandra

divides her time between New York, Rome, Harbour Island and Chicago where she founded her design firm in 1981. Awarded by House Beautiful as their first Master Class Designer and recently named as one of Elle Decor's A-list designers for the second year in a row. Her work continues to inspire those through confident, livable and ever-changing interiors.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

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Marianne Brown

Marianne Brown is the Collections Manager and

Assistant Archivist at Conde Nast. In addition to

holding degrees in Art History and Interior Design,

she has a MA in Museum Studies—Costume and

Textiles from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

She will discuss the Vogue digitization project at

Conde Nast.

Tom Cary

Tom Cary presides over his eponymous rare book/ fine art business, The Cary Collection whose global spe-cialty retail clientele reads like a verita-ble who's who in the design/ fashion industry: Kate Spade/ J. Crew/ Holland & Holland/ Bergdorf Goodman/ & Polo Ralph Lauren!- Tom has amassed a staggering 15,000+ rare book inventory in such diverse/ 'glam' categories as: Men's & Women's Fashion/ Photog-raphy/ Jewellery/ Interior Design/ Archi-tecture/ Gardening/ Cookery & Gentle-

men's Sporting Pursuits: Equestrian/ Yachting/ Polo/ Horse Racing/ Golfing/ Racquets/ Angling/ Mixology (Cocktailing)/ James Bond/ & Private Clubs, et al! Tom's vintage 'showrooms' have been featured in magazines & on blog sites 'round the world: Nest Magazine, USA: shot by noted society portraitist, Tina Barney (see image)/ The Rake Magazine, Singapore, Malaysia/ Permanent Style, London, UK/ The Vintage Mono, Tokyo, Japan/ Unabashedly Prep, Dallas, Tx/ Yale Daily News, New Haven, Ct/ & New York Social Diary! Portions of The Cary Collection have been prominently featured in both The Museum of The City of New York's landmark exhibition: "Cecil Beaton, The New York Years" as well as currently in The Museum at The Fashion Institute of Technology's "Ivy Style" exhibi-tion!~ Tom attended The Nichols School in Buffalo, NY & New England College in Arun-del, West Sussex, England.

Biographies of the

2012 Fashion: Now & Then

participants

Robert Clark

Robert Clark is an Assistant Professor and Director of

the Writing Center at LIM College. In addition to his

responsibilities as the Director of LIM College’s Writing

Center, Dr. Robert Clark teaches several courses in the

Arts and Communications Department, including 20th

Century American Literature, New York Writers, News

Reporting, and Research and Analysis. Prior to joining

LIM College in 2008, Dr. Clark was a Senior Editor at

the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Contributing

Editor for Columbia Magazine, and an Associate Editor

at Lingua Franca magazine.

Dr. Clark holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University,

as well as a Master of Arts degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from New

York University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Boston University.

Anne Coco

Anne Coco is the Graphic Arts Librarian at the Academy of

Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in film studies from Califor-

nia State University, Northridge (CSUN) and a MLIS from

the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She over-

sees the Library’s collection of two-dimensional works on

paper, which includes one of the largest known collections

of motion picture costume design drawings.

In 1998, Ms. Coco co-curated the exhibition “The Origins of

Screen Style: Hollywood Costume Sketches from the Leon-

ard Stanley Archive.” She presented “Drawn into Holly-

wood: Documenting Costume Design in the Movies” at the

Costume Society of America’s 32nd Annual Meeting and National Symposium in 2006.

Her essay, “Drawing on Film: Access, Cataloging and Conservation Costume Design

Drawings at the Margaret Herrick Library” was published in Documenting: Costume De-

sign (2010).

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

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Ari Seth Cohen

Ari Seth Cohen is the creator of Advanced Style, a blog

devoted “to capturing the sartorial savvy of the senior set.”

He says, “I feature people who live full creative lives. They

live life to the fullest, age gracefully and continue to grow

and challenge themselves.”

Ari has a longtime interest in clothing and style and a life-

long affinity for his elders. When he was growing up, his late

grandmother (a librarian) was his best friend; her “energy

and attitude towards life” continue to inspire him. As a re-

sult, he couldn't help but question the absence of mature faces in the fashion world. “I

noticed a lack of older people in fashion campaigns and street style sites,” he says. “I

wanted to show that you can be stylish, creative and vital at any age.”

At 29, Ari is far from being eligible for a featured spot in Advanced Style. Still, he does

have a decade’s worth of professional accomplishments. In addition to developing a

blog that’s been touted by the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Forbes, last year

he created a special photo installation for Selfridges in London. Before becoming a

blogger, he spent years working in fashion production and retail management. Ari lives

in New York City.

Biographies of the

2012 Fashion: Now & Then

participants

Rebecca Collier

Becky Collier (Adjunct Professor, Theatre Artist)

MA, New York University, BA, Columbia College

Chicago, has taught speech, theatre and writing

courses at the college level for the past five years.

She has worked with LIM College, Fashion Insti-

tute of Technology, City College New York, Man-

hattan College, and the College of Mount Saint

Vincent. She has also worked as both a director and a performer with several Off-Off

Broadway companies. Her play, “Lil’ Bud,” was produced as part of the Theatrix 24 Hour

Play Festival at New York University, and she recently appeared in the independent film,

“City Park Rangers.” Becky teaches a Research & Analysis class at LIM College, and

loves working with students as they develop and execute their projects.

Lucy Collins

Lucy Collins received her PhD in philosophy from

Temple University where she specialized in existen-

tialism, ethics, and fashion theory. Prior to entering

graduate school, she worked for several fashion

firms in New York as an editorial and PR assistant.

She has presented papers at several national and

international conferences on topics related to fashion

theory. Dr. Collins teaches courses in ethics and

fashion theory at both LIM College and Parsons the New School for Design. She has

also delivered lectures at the School of Visual Arts program in Design Criticism.

She has been a blog contributor for Worn Through, Fashion Snoops, and a contributor to

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of National Dress. Her writing has also appeared in Fash-

ion Projects and Fashion Theory, as well as The Philosopher's Magazine. She is a mem-

ber of The Costume Society of America, The American Philosophical Association, The

American Society for Aesthetics, and The Popular Culture Association.

Biographies of the

2012 Fashion: Now & Then

participants

Cassie Davies-Strodder

Cassie Davies-Strodder graduate from Sussex University

with a BA in Art History in 2006. For the last five years she

has worked as an Assistant Curator in the Fashion and Tex-

tiles Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum in Lon-

don; Britain’s leading museum of Art and Design holding the

National Collection of textiles and dress. Whilst her special-

ism is early 20th century dress, Cassie has been heavily

involved in the Contemporary Programme at the V&A, work-

ing on the hugely popular ‘Fashion In Motion’ series of con-

temporary fashion shows at the Museum and ‘Friday Lates’,

the V&A’s a curated programme of evening events working

with contemporary practitioners in fields as diverse as Architecture and Japanese Lolita

fashion. Whilst working at the V&A she studied for her Masters Degree in History of De-

sign and Material Culture under the tuition of renowned dress historian Lou Taylor. Cas-

sie’s research into the Heather Firbank dress collection at the V&A will be published early

next year in a book entitles ‘Shopping for Fashion in Edwardian London: The Heather

Firbank Collection.’

Kimberly Detterbeck

Kimberly Detterbeck is the Art Librarian at Purchase

College, State University of New York. She has previ-

ously worked at Frostburg State University as the

Visual Arts Librarian and University of Maryland,

College Park in the Art Library and has held an in-

ternship at The National Gallery of Art in Washington,

D.C. She holds an MS in Library and Information

Science from the University of Maryland, College

Park and a MA in the history of art form Syracuse

University. Her presentation, with Marie Sciangula

and Nicole LaMoreaux, is based on their research

report on the information seeking behaviors of fashion bloggers, as part of the myMET-

RO researchers Pilot Project.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

participants

Lauren Downing

Lauren Downing graduated from the MA Fashion Stud-

ies program at Parsons the New School for Design in

May 2012. She received her BA from Washington Uni-

versity in St. Louis where she majored in Art History

and Anthropology. Currently, she works as a part-time

faculty member at the New School where she teaches

art and design history and theory. She is also a co-

editor, art director, and co-founder of Fashion Studies

Journal, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal for

the academic study of fashion design and theory. Her

current research examines how women cultivate fash-

ionable identities within the plus-size marketplace. Lau-

ren has presented on this topic at the Pop Culture Association of America’s annual

conference and her work is soon to be published in CUNY’S FRAME journal. She cur-

rently resides in Brooklyn, New York with her husband Jon.

Ionia Dunn-Lee

Ionia Dunn Lee (Fashion Editor, Instructor, Stylist) MA,

Pace University, BS, California State University, is a

well-known Fashion Insider in New York City. She

started out at Essence Magazine in 1974, and quickly

rose from the ranks to become a Fashion Editor. As

her freelance styling began to pick up, she left Es-

sence to focus on individual clients, freelance writing,

and occasional teaching. She is currently the Fashion

Director/Style Reporter for Today’s Black Woman, and

she continues to teach at LIM College and the High

School of Fashion Industry. In 2009, Ionia founded a

non-profit organization called “Threads of Color” designed to celebrate the global diver-

sity within the fashion industry and raise scholarship funds. This organization has held

three major events and awarded three scholarships to students at LIM College. In

2010, Ionia was presented with the Adjunct Instructor President’s Award from LIM

College for Outstanding Service to the College.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

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Elisa Goodkind & Lily Manelbaum

Style LikeU Co-founder & Editor in Chief, Elisa Goodkind,

was a former fashion editor at Self and Glamour and a

veteran fashion stylist with work published in Interview, In

Style, Vanity Fair, Tatler, L’Uomo Vogue, Italian Vanity

Fair, The New York Times Magazine and Gotham Maga-

zines, among others. She has also styled many celebrities

in the film, music and TV industries and is a former yoga

teacher and partner at Yoga Zone. Her daughter, Lily

Mandelbaum, is Style LikeU’s other founder and Editor in

Chief. She is a documentary film student at NYU’s Gal-

latin School of Individualized Studies and is passionate

about social activism with a focus on creating social

changed through medium of film. Lily is also the published author of the Style LikeU

book.

Amanda Hallay

Amanda Hallay, Assistant Clinical Professor at

LIM College, is an author and cultural historian

specializing in various aspects of 20th century

popular culture and how each acts as a catalyst

to another (as explored in her courses Cultural

Connections to Fashion, Pop Century and Who

Wore What When, created and taught exclu-

sively at LIM College). The author of several

books exploring 20th century pop culture, Professor Hallay’s book, The Popular History

of Voodoo will be released by The History Press in 2013, and she will be presenting her

research (and the challenges she met due to the lack of archiving of what many in the

20th century perceived as ‘lowbrow’) in her talk, DO DO THAT VOODO! Sex, Sin,

Snakes and ‘The Dusky Other’ in 20th Century Popular Culture.

Amanda is the former International Fashion Editor of Couture and Men Mode magazines,

and was at one time European Trend Analyst for the Doneger Group, a fashion forecast-

ing service. She is a graduate of the American University of Paris and England’s Bath

Spa University.

Biographies of the

2012 Fashion: Now & Then

participants

Zoë Ivory

Zoë Ivory has been an Archivist in the Fashion Industry for

10 years, curating the corporate records and historic arti-

fact collections of Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Delman and

Nina Footwear. At Donna Karan she oversaw the Antique

Library, a 10,000 piece collection of vintage clothing and

accessories, spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, a re-

source of creative inspiration for DKNY and Donna Karan

Collection designers.

At Calvin Klein Ms. Ivory managed the collection of Calvin

Klein, including runway collections from 1969 to pre-

sent. For the Delman Archive she researched and ac-

quired vintage Delman shoes and organized the paper records of the 93-year-old

brand. She created the Nina Archive, organizing 55 years of shoes, patterns, lasts, ad-

vertising materials, drawings and related ephemera. She taught a course on the history

of accessories, focusing on footwear at the Istituto di Design in Barcelona.

Ms. Ivory has completed all course work at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Gradu-

ate Program in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History, with a minor in Museum Studies

from Beloit College and is currently enrolled in the Fashion Institute of Technology’s

Certificate Program for Production Management. Two special interests, fair trade and

sustainable production practices, are fundamental to her business plan for Bon Éléphant,

a company she is forming to design and import fair trade produced scarves from India.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

participants

Kenneth M. Kambara

Kenneth M. Kambara uses his multidisciplinary skills

in a variety of endeavors, including analysis and

consultation in social media, independent film pro-

duction, screenwriting, and teaching marketing at

LIM College. One of his screenplays is currently a

semifinalist in the Nicholls Fellowship of the Ameri-

can Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,

and he is producing a documentary on the decline of

family medicine, The Mercer Street Medical Case.

His current research is on the use of visualization in

marketing research and the phenomenon of brand

backlash in the era of social media. He received his

doctorate in Management from the University of

California at Irvine, was an intercampus scholar at the Hass School at UC Berkeley, and

received his Masters of Business Administration at the University of Oregon. Dr. Kamba-

ra has recently published an article from his dissertation on brand management, present-

ed several papers at the American Sociology Association (ASA) in recent years, and

contributes to an ASA group blog on culture, politics, and discourse.

Maheen Khan

Maheen Khan is a well-known pioneer in the Bangla-

desh design industry, having created the market for

prêt-a-porter garments featuring local traditional

designs. She founded and is the managing director

of Mayasir Limited, a fashion house whose innova-

tive designs reflect contemporary interpretations of

indigenous Bangladeshi style. Ms. Khan's goal is to

put Bangladesh's rich heritage on the global fashion

map, while providing support to over 3,000 rural

artisans working in textiles, jewelry, and other fash-

ion accessories. She also writes a regular column on

design and heritage crafts for the Daily Star Bangladesh, and is the founding chair of Arts

Council Dhaka, which advocates for and promotes long neglected Bengal art. While on

fellowship, she will examine heritage textiles, study folk arts promotion and related social

enterprises, meet with fashion designers, and visit museums and galleries featuring Cen-

tral and South Asian Collections and Native American Arts.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

participants

Lindsay King

Lindsay King is the Public Services Librarian in the

Haas Arts Library at Yale University, where she

serves as the liaison to the Yale School of Drama.

She previously worked in the Art Collection at

Northwestern University Library and in museum

education at the Art Institute of Chicago. Lindsay

holds an MS in Library and Information Science

from the University of Illinois and an MA in Modern

Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of

the Art Institute of Chicago. Her presentation is

based on the article she co-authored with Russell T.

Clement, "Style and Substance: Fashion in Twenty-

First-Century Research Libraries," published in the spring 2012 issue of Art Documenta-

tion.

Nicole Kirpalani

Nicole Kirpalani is Assistant Professor of Marketing &

Management at LIM College, New York, NY. Her re-

search interests focus on the consumer side of market-

ing, including the co-creation of value, consumer rela-

tionships with brands (including fashion brands), and

consumer privacy. In addition, she is engaged in re-

search related to marketing pedagogy. Dr. Kirpalani

teaches both undergraduate and graduate marketing

courses at LIM College. She is the recipient of the 2012

Distinguished Teaching Award at LIM College. She

holds a Ph.D. in Business (Marketing) from the City

University of New York.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

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Anya Kurennaya

Anya Kurennaya is a recent graduate of the MA Fashion

Studies program at Parsons The New School for Design,

having previously studied linguistics and foreign lan-

guages at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque

and at McGill University in Montreal. She is a contributing

editor of the recently launched Fashion Studies Journal,

created by students in the MAFS program to showcase

masters’ level work in fashion studies. She is currently

working to publish selections from her thesis, entitled

“Look What the Cat Dragged In: Masculinity, Sexuality

and Authenticity in 1980s Glam Metal.”

Howard Vincent Kurtz

Howard Vincent Kurtz is the Associate Professor of

Theater and head of the design program at George

Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Professor Kurtz

was honored to receive the George Mason University

Outstanding Excellence in Teaching Award and the

Fenwick Library Fellowship for Research Award. Mr.

Kurtz's previous work experience includes several

years as a draper in New York City, creating costumes

for Broadway, Hollywood films, and television. Howard

is a professional union costume designer, designing

costumes at many regional and local theaters in the

Washington, D.C. metro area. He was nominated and

received the Helen Hayes Outstanding Costume Design

Award. In addition to his academic and professional work in costume design, Mr. Kurtz is the

Associate Curator of Costumes and Textiles at the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gar-

dens. Howard is responsible for maintaining the museum’s collection of textiles; including

the cataloging and conservation of the collections and the preparation of exhibitions. He

has curated two exhibitions highlighting the Post family costumes, Invitation to the Ball:

Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Fancy Dress Costumes of the 1920s and Wedding Belles,

Bridal Fashions From The Marjorie Merriweather Post Family, 1874-1958. Howard is

currently writing a comprehensive book on Marjorie Merriweather Post’s costume collec-

tion.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

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Nicole LaMoreaux

Nicole LaMoreaux is currently an Evening Librarian

at LIM College’s Adrian G. Marcuse Library and a

Reference Assistant at the Fashion Institute of

Technology’s Gladys Marcus Library. She received

her Master of Library Science degree from the

University at Buffalo, SUNY and received her

Bachelor of Science degree from the Fashion Insti-

tute of Technology, SUNY. Nicole has had a keen

interest in fashion dating back to when she was in

kindergarten in Alabama and always wore a wed-

ding dress. Her presentation, with Kimberly Detter-

beck and Marie Sciangula, is based on their re-

search report on the information seeking behaviors

of fashion bloggers, as part of the myMETRO Researchers Pilot Project.

Laura Layfer

Laura Layfer is currently the Art & Antiques Di-rector at Branca, Inc., a design firm with offices in Chicago and New York. Prior to taking on this role, Ms. Layfer was the Furniture & Couture Specialist in the Interiors department at Chris-tie’s, where she organized and directed the inau-gural multi-owner couture sale for Christie’s New York in July 2008. Ms. Layfer joined Christie’s in 2005, as a junior specialist in the American Furni-ture & Folk Art department, and later served as the liaison for the Iconic Sales/ Collectibles de-partment on special collections, handling all cata-loguing and research for couture and accessories in such notable sales as: Maria Félix: La Doña

(July 2007), The Nan Kempner Collection (October 2007), and Property From The Estate of Kitty Carlisle Hart (December 2007). Ms. Layfer returned to Christie’s as a fashion consultant in 2011, to work on The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor (December 2011).

Previous to her positions at Christie’s, Ms. Layfer was the Assistant Director of the Amer-ican Arts Course at Sotheby’s Institute. Additionally, she has written for various print and online publications on the topics of fashion and furniture.

Ms. Layfer holds a B.A. in art history from the University of Michigan, a graduate certifi-cate in American fine and decorative arts from Sotheby’s Institute, and an M.A. in the History of Decorative Arts & Design from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Masters Pro-gram with Parsons the New School.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

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Barbara Leung

Barbara Leung holds a BSc in Media, Culture and Communi-

cations and French from New York University. She is the

current New York editor for Toronto-based online magazine,

Front Row Mag. To add, Barbara discusses fashion-related

events, spectacles, and theory on her personal blog, Phresh-

ly Squeezed, and can also be found active on Twitter under

the handle @barb_leung

Maria Mackinney-Valentin

Maria Mackinney-Valentin holds an

MA in literature from the University of

Copenhagen and earned her Ph.D.

degree from the Royal Danish Acade-

my of Fine Arts, Design School

(KADK). The Ph.D. dissertation was

entitled “On the Nature of Trends: A

Study of Trend Mechanisms in Con-

temporary Fashion” (2010) and was an

effort to map, update and develop the

field of Trend Studies. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow that KADK where her

research centers on consumer behavior. She will be presenting a paper on the paradox-

es of retro in contemporary fashion.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

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Suz Massen

Suz Massen has an advanced degree in information and library

science from the University at Albany, State University of New

York. She also holds an undergraduate degree in art history

from Binghamton University, State University of New York, and

recently finished her thesis for an advanced degree in art history

from Hunter College, City University of New York. An infor-

mation generalist, Suz prefers to know a moderate amount

about many things instead of knowing much about a specific

thing. She feels that knowing how to find information is more

important than knowing it by heart. Suz enjoys visual dictionaries, graphic novels, and

vintage etiquette books. She focuses on pursuits that will aid her in not just being a librari-

an (as she already is), but in being a super librarian (what she aspires to be).

Emilee Matthews

Emilee Mathews is the Interim Director of the Fine Arts Library

at Indiana University in Bloomington. She earned her master’s

degrees in Art History and Library Science at Indiana Univer-

sity in 2011. As the director of the Fine Arts Library, she pro-

vides vision for the public services of the library, actively par-

ticipates in the School of Fine Arts’ teaching mission, and

works closely with faculty and graduate students to achieve

research excellence. She is looking forward to presenting her

research on teaching visual literacy through popular culture in

her collaborations with apparel merchandising, fashion de-

sign, studio art, and art history faculty at IUB.

Jean Meek-Barker

Jean Meek-Barker began her career assisting in the Para-mount Studios library, when it was under the leadership of Gladys Percey. Among her credits, she has been a photo stylist for Mademoiselle, a store merchandising representative for Harper's Bazaar, a reporter at the New York Herald-Tribune, and fashion editor for Redbook. Ms. Meek-Barker is the current archivist at Fashion Group International, and a 50-year member of the organization.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

participants

Caroline Rennolds Milbank

Caroline Rennolds Milbank has been involved with

the history of fashion for more than 30 years. Begin-

ning with her first job after college at Sotheby’s she

has worked as an auction house expert of couture

clothing, an appraiser and as a curator of the cos-

tume components of art exhibitions at the Clark Art

Institute, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the

Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has written arti-

cles, on-line articles, essays for museum cata-

logues, along with four books. Her focus is Europe-

an and American women’s attire during the 19th and

20th centuries.

Virginia Millington

Virginia is the Manager, Recording and Archive of

StoryCorps. Born in Washington, DC, Virginia spent

her formative years learning the ropes in a variety of

libraries, archives, and special collections, including

stints at the Library of Congress, the Walker Art Cen-

ter, and Columbia University’s Diamond Law Library.

Prior to arriving in Brooklyn, she worked in research

and exhibitions at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Since 2004, she has been involved with the DC Lis-

tening Lounge, a group of independent audio produc-

ers. She received her Masters in Library Science from

the Pratt Institute.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

participants

Tal Nadan

Tal Nadan is the Reference Archivist for the

New York Public Library's Manuscripts and

Archives Division. In addition to an MLS, she

also holds a MS in the History, Theory and

Criticism of Art, Design and Architecture. Her

interests are in 20th century design as relating

to consumer culture, previously studying pack-

aging design for her master's thesis. The

presentation will discuss the relationships of

different areas of the industry and the modes

of information sharing, rooted in the activities

of the non-profit Fashion Group International

throughout its 80-year history.

Nicole Pagowsky

Nicole Pagowsky is an Instructional Services Librarian

at the University of Arizona. She created Librarian

Wardrobe in 2010, a mostly user-generated blog to

serve as a catalog of how information professionals

dress for work. Nicole is interested in user experience

and visual perceptions of information workers, which is

explored through interviews and other mediated posts.

With a variety of stereotypes floating around about

librarians, whether it is buns and shushing or tattoos

and social clubs, the blog hopes to dispel these as-

sumptions and question whether they even matter.

Nicole developed a program on style, stereotypes, and

perceptions for a packed room at the American Library

Association 2012 Annual Conference; and participated in a panel on developing a niche

through Librarian Wardrobe, within communities of librarians. Nicole’s presentation will

focus on internal and external perceptions of library workers and how content from Librar-

ian Wardrobe is used by both information professionals and the public.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

participants

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

Einav is a PhD student at the history depart-

ment in New York University. Her dissertation,

“This is What a Feminist Looks Like: The

Construction of the New Woman Imagery

through Fashion and the Political Culture of

American Feminism 1890-1940,” examines

the ways in which women employed dress

styles in negotiating and constructing gen-

dered political identities, as well as in advanc-

ing feminist agendas during the early decades

of the twentieth century. Her project examines

the intersections between feminism and fash-

ion, claiming that the two are inherently connected, not opposing each other. She won the

2012-2013 Winterthur Library and Museum Research Fellowship and the 2012-2013

Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, as well as research grants from New York Univer-

sity.

George Sanchez

George Sanchez (MLS, Rutgers University, MPS, New

York Technical College). Came to LIM College in 1985

and served as the Director of the Adrian G. Marcuse

Library for 25 years. His experience in retailing and in

human resources brought a fashion business perspec-

tive to his academic credentials. He was knowledgeable

in many areas, such as, general business, film and fash-

ion as well as music. He was also known for his dedica-

tion to teaching and working with individual students and

faculty on their research projects. Under his leadership,

the library expanded along with the college from a 900-

square-foot space with 8,000 volumes to a 5,000-square

-foot facility with over 18,000 volumes and an electronic

collection. George also performed with the LIM College

Players as a tribute to the late faculty member Leah

Ryan to help raise scholarship funds for students. He

recently “retired,” and is currently teaching classes at

Fashion Institute of Technology and enjoying time with friends and family.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

participants

Marie Sciangula

Marie Sciangula is the Assistant Director of the

Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC)

at Purchase College, State University of New York.

She has been working with Purchase College faculty

and educational technologies for over a decade. She

received her MLIS from the Palmer School of Library

and Information Science at Long Island University.

Her presentation, with Kim Detterbeck and Nicole

LaMoreaux, is based on their research report on the

information seeking behaviors of fashion bloggers, as

part of the myMETRO Researchers Pilot Project.

Thomaï Serdari

With a career of 15 years as Director of Research

Collections at the Department of Art History, New

York University, Thomaï Serdari is an expert in artic-

ulating new research questions and defining interdis-

ciplinary areas of inquiry. Her research focuses on

the intersection of fine arts and commerce, a field

she calls “luxury arts” and which includes luxury

goods in the areas of fashion, product design, and

architecture. Her ideas developed into the core

course for the Luxury Marketing specialization at

NYU’s Stern School of Business. Additionally,

Thomaï teaches “Cultures of Excess: Product and

Fashion Design through Modernity,” “Research Meth-

ods,” and “Entrepreneurship in the Business of Art” also at NYU.

Thomaï is currently working on two books, the biography of Robert Rosenblum, American

art historian, and a textbook on entrepreneurship in the arts. She maintains an independ-

ent practice as a USPAP qualified appraiser in fine and luxury arts. She is the founder of

Ad Nobile, a think tank dedicated to the research of processes, products, and strategies

in the luxury segment of the market. Thomaï holds a PhD in Art History and Archaeology

from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of

Business.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

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Jenny Swadosh

Jenny Swadosh is Assistant Archivist for the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Design

Archives of Parsons The New School for Design. Previously, she held archives and li-

brary positions at the Hadassah Archives at the American Jewish Historical Society and

the Staten Island Museum (formerly, Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences). She

received her MLS from Queens College-City University of New York with a certificate in

Archives, Records Management and Preservation in 2007. While completing her gradu-

ate research requirements in 2006, she was awarded a Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt

Institute internship at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New

York.

Ms. Swadosh holds a BS in Media, Culture and Communication Studies from New York

University (’99) and worked in the publishing industry before pursuing graduate study.

She is a member of the Society of American Archivists, the Mid-Atlantic Region Archives

Conference, and the Archivists’ Round Table of Metropolitan New York. Ms. Swadosh

also serves as the Archives Committee Chair for the Association for Gravestone Studies.

Joseph Ungoco

Joseph Ungoco is an Adjunct Professor at LIM

College where he teaches the Capstone course

for graduate students in the MBA program. He

has over six years of progressively advancing

Editorial experience in the Fashion Magazine

Industry and over 16 years experience in strate-

gic planning, communications and public rela-

tions. Professor Ungoco is the founder of ICON

Consulting Services, a consultancy group that

provides small business entrepreneurs with

business solutions.

Professor Ungoco received an MBA, cum laude from Boston University, as well as a BA,

cum laude and MA in Medical Science.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

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Monique Vandresen

Monique has taught Fashion Communications

at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

in Brazil since 1998. In addition to working as a

journalist at Revista Nova Cosmopolitan, Jor-

nal O Estado, Revista Veja, and Jornal AN

Capital, Monique has also worked in public

relations at Compania de Notícias, CDN. Her

research interests are fashion, consumerism,

magazines, and new technologies. Monique

holds a BA in Communications from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, a MA in

Developmental Studies from Institute of Social Studies (den Haag, Netherlands), and a

PhD in Communications from Universidade do Estado de São Paulo.

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2012 Fashion: Now & Then

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David Wolfe

As Creative Director of The Doneger Group, David

analyzes trends influencing big-picture developments

in style, culture and society. A high-profile personali-

ty, David’s wit and wisdom have earned him a stellar

reputation over his 50 years in the fashion indus-

try. He is known as “America’s Foremost Fashion

Forecaster” and is the most quoted authority in the

industry, his views and quips appearing in various

publications and on television.

A native of Ohio, David began his career there in a

small department store. In the 1960s he moved to

London where he quickly established himself as a

leading fashion artist published in Vogue, Women’s

Wear Daily and The London Sunday Times. In 1969,

he helped to establish the “fashion service” segment of the industry and is credited with

being the originator of what became known as “trend forecasting” while working for a

decade as Creative Director of IM International. He then established TFS The Fashion

service and returned to the U.S. as President of that company. He joined The Doneger

Group in 1990.

Today David devotes much of his time to public appearances including frequently acting

as guest lecturer at LIM College where his daughter, Amanda Hallay, teaches, and where

he serves on the Advisory Board.