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November 30 – December 3, 2006 |
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Cutting Edge: Fashion and the Avant-Garde
Eighth New York Fashion Conference
Thursday – Saturday, November 30 – December 3, 2006
In the eighth annual fashion conference, we consider the avant-garde and radical in fashion—historically as well as in the present.
Critical to this consideration is the role of tastemakers—including magazine editors and style directors—in recognizing, defining, explicating, and advancing the avant-garde. We examine how the avant-garde is successfully introduced to a broader group of consumers by visionary retailers. Seminal to this discussion are those who transform and reposition traditional brands or houses into contemporary expressions of what may have come to be seen as outdated, and in so doing, make them new. We also consider forces that have shaped designers approaches to the avant-garde.
Yet another important topic is cutting and draping of fabric, how handling of fabric has shaped the “cutting edge.” Significant and related is treatment of the textile’s edge and its embellishment, as well as artistic and technologic innovation in textiles.
We turn to fashion in photography and film and how it can be artistically transformative, considering costume and its importance both to the metaphoric and literal director’s cut.
We also address the interplay between fashion and jewelry or precious stones—in the latter case, diamonds in particular—on the cutting edge artistic expressions by legendary houses such as Harry Winston, Tiffany & Co and Graff; by mining companies now in the retail world, such as DeBeers; by individual artists working in the studio tradition, among them young jewelers such as Lola Brooks; and by fashion designers including Diane Von Furstenberg.
Often the most effective ways of introducing a new trend or dramatic departure is through accessories, in particular handbags and shoes. These allow the consumer to plunge into the new while retaining a look more rooted in the familiar.
The conference is organized by Lisa Koenigsberg, president and founder of Initiatives in Art and Culture, who established the series of New York fashion conferences. The conference will be held at Parsons The New School of Design under the aegis of the Fashion Design Department of which Tim Gunn is chair.
Evening receptions hosted by Staley-Wise Gallery and ELLE Magazine complement the sessions.
Participants
- Isabel Toledo, designer
and Ruben Toledo, artist, and co-founders, The Toledo Studio
Designer Zac
Posen - Natalie Chanin of
Project Alabama
- Photographer
Bert Stern
- Designer Koos
van den Akker
- Glovemaker
Daniel Storto
- Critic Holly
Brubach
- Graphic designer
Abbott Miller
- Noted textile
designer Reiko Sudo of Nuno Institute
- Santiago Gonzalez,
president, Nancy Gonzalez, producer of luxury exotic skin bags
- Susy Korb, chief
marketing officer, Harry Winston, Inc.
- Tim
Gunn, chair of Parsons Fashion Design Department and co-host, Project Runway
- Fashion forecaster
David Wolfe
- Alicia Drake, author, The
Beautiful Fall about Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent in the 1970s
- Penelope Rowlands, author, A Dash of Daring, the biography of
legendary editor Carmel Snow.
- Frank Nuovo, formerly head
of Nokia Design Center and now
associated with Vertu
- Judianna Makovsky – highly
regarded and accomplished costume designer – whose credits include Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, X-Men, Seabiscuit, and Pleasantville
- Journalist, novelist and Vanity Fair
contributing editor Laura Jacobs
- Curator and
photo historian Nancy Hall-Duncan
- June Weir, senior
conference advisor, who is former vice president, Fairchild Publications and editor,
Women’s Wear
The conference fee is $355, please call (646) 485-1952 to register by phone or register online at www.acteva.com/go/cuttingedge
or fax
the completed form below to (212)
935-6911, 24 hours a day or mail to: Initiatives in Art and Culture, 333 East 57th Street, Suite
13B, New York, New York 10022 or email the information below to Lisa
Koenigsberg at lisa.koenigsberg@artinitiatives.com.
A discounted rate is available for full-time students with ID. For full-time
students with ID the conference fee is $160. To receive the discounted rate you
must call (646) 485-1952.
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