Uncommon Threads Luncheon
and Symposium:
“London Calling: British Fashions from the Titanic to Today”
Friday, February 8, 2013,
10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m, Denius Student Center, Hartley Room; Tickets: $60
Guest Speaker: Lauren D. Whitley, curator in the David and Roberta
Logie Department of Textile and Fashion Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
London has been a major
player in the fashion world in the past forty years, producing a number of
important, innovative designers. Yet, its influence began much earlier than
that. This talk will explore London’s contributions to creative fashion in the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the intrepid designer Lady Duff
Gordon, who survived the sinking of the Titanic, through Mod styles of Swinging
London in the 1960s, Punk fashions of the 1970s, to the avant-garde designs of
international superstars such as John Galliano and the late Alexander McQueen.
The lecture will conclude with a look at the newest generation of young
designers making waves in London’s fashion scene today.
Image courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston