SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

In association with Collection+: Pinaree Sanpitak Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation enthusiastically presents

Fashion forum: You are what you wear

Join us for a fashion discussion featuring special guest panelists:

Prof. Peter McNeil, Professor of Design History, University of Technology, Sydney and Professor of Fashion Studies, Stockholm University 
Angus Trumble, Director, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Josephine Inge, Principal, 1 Place Patent Attorneys + Solicitors

Moderated by Dr Gene Sherman AM, fashion collector and Executive Director, SCAF.

on Thursday, 4 December 2014
6 – 8 pm
Conversation to commence at 6.30 pm

at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
16–20 Goodhope Street
Paddington

Light refreshments will be served.

RSVP by Tuesday, 2 December 2014
02 9331 1112 or bookings@sherman-scaf.org.au

Speakers:

Peter McNeil was trained in the history of art with a focus on design history. His research engages with different ways in which visual imagery and materiality shaped lives from the eighteenth century to the present day. Recent publications include The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives, 2010 (Routledge; with G. Riello); Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources, Renaissance to the Present Day (4 Vols.), Berg, 2009; and Fashion Writing and Criticism: History, Theory, Practice (2014, with S. Miller). Current works in preparation: Luxury: A Rich History (with G. Riello, OUP); Reigning Men (Prestel/LACMA); and Pretty Gentlemen: the 18th century Fashion World. He is Professor of Design History in the School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney and Foundation Professor of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University. In June 2014 he was appointed a Finland Distinguished Professor by the Academy of Finland at Aalto University.

Angus Trumble is Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia. He was previously Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of A Brief History of the Smile (2003), and The Finger: A Handbook (2010). His latest book (co-edited with Professor Andrea Wolk Rager of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio), Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, was shortlisted for the 2013 Spears Book Awards in London. Angus is a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, The Burlington Magazine, the Paris Review, Esopus Magazine, and the Australian Book Review.

Josephine Inge is a Principal of 1Place Patent Attorneys + Solicitors – a specialist intellectual property law firm with a fashion law practice. She is an alumna of the Fashion Law Institute of Fordham University, New York, and has a Masters of Laws from the University of Melbourne, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales and Bachelor of Science with first class honours in neuroscience from the University of Sydney. Josephine practices as both a solicitor and a registered patent attorney. This makes her potentially the only patent attorney with a sense of fashion. Her interest in fashion extends to design generally, and for many years she was a regular contributor to the well-regarded industrial design magazine Curve.

Photo: Marie-Louise Bousquet and Carmel Snow, editors-in-chief of French and American Harper’s Bazaar, at Chanel, 1955