Wardrobe Network in November
Who is the group of fashion people?
The Wardrobe Network is an interdisciplinary group of academics, museum people and consultants, from Scandinavia and Europe, examining dress practices in a critical and sustainable perspective.
This is a picture from the previous Wardrobe Network event, a travelling workshop with the aim of exploring and revitalizing the local wool industries in the Shetland Islands and Norway.
Themes of the workshop
One of the themes for the present workshop is sustainability and action research, with presentations on
1) design ethnography by shoe designer Catherine Willems, University College Ghent
2) a project to revitalize the Norwegian wool industry by consumer researcher Ingun Klepp, National Institute for Consumer Research, Oslo, and
3) fashion entrepreneurship and the difficulty of intervening in the flighty Danish design scene.
The second theme is local couture histories, with presentations on
4) the Uzbek textile heritage in the era of independence, by Gabriele Mentges,
5) the methodological challenges OF REINTERPRETING LOCAL FASHION HISTORY BY MARIE Riegels Melchior, Designmuseum Danmark,
6) on haute couture as local business by historian Veronique Pouillard, Oslo University and
7) on the influence of local culture on Swedish fashion by art historian Ulrika Berglund, Stockholm University.
Contact person at Department of Intercultural Communication and Management
Associate professor Lise Skov, ls.ikl@cbs.dk