Register for the Fashion: Now & Then Conference Before the Early-Bird Rates Fly Away!

The early bird rates for this year's Fashion: Now & Then: From Antiquity to Visionary Conference end on Monday, September 15, 2014. 

Registration is open on Eventville.  

Conference Rates				Early Bird*			After 9-15-2014
Full Conference** Attendance				$200			$225
Full Conference** Attendance (Presenters)				$150			$175
Full Conference Attendance** (Students with Valid ID)				$100			$125
Conference Support (Code Needed to Complete Registration)				$0			$0
Conference Rates for LIM College Students, Faculty & Staff				Early Bird*			After 9-15-2014
Full Conference Attendance				$50			$75
Friday ONLY Conference (10/24)				$25			$50
Saturday ONLY Conference (10/25)				$25			$50
Thursday Evening Opening Reception (10/23)				$25			$50
Conference Support (Code Needed to Complete Registration)				$0			$0

*Early Bird Rates apply to registration completed before September 15, 2014. 

Museum Tours Saturday, October 25th at 1pm					Available Spots
Museum at FIT - Exposed: A History of Lingerie & Dance and Fashion (two exhibitions) – unguided					34
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Fashion in Art (general tour – guided)					19
The Museum of the City of New York – Mac Conner: A New York Life – guided tour					19
Brooklyn Museum – Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe – guided					34

**The guided/unguided Museum Tours are an optional choice for Full Conference Attendees to attend after the Saturday program. Please only choose one tour option. Tour selections are completed with Full Conference registration on Eventville.

A limited number of scholarships are available to help offset conference fees. Contact David Benjamin david.benjamin@limcollege.edu for more information. 

Join the conversation: #LIMFNT

Fashion: Now & Then: From Antiquity to Visionary 2014 Schedule October 23 - 25, 2014

Schedule Day 1

LIM College

Maxwell Hall & Adrian G. Marcuse Library

216 East 45th Street

THURSDAY, October 23, 2014

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. 
Welcome Reception

Book signing with Holly Price Alford, author of Who’s Who in Fashion, 6th edition

Schedule Day 2
FRIDAY, October 24, 2014

LIM College, Townhouse, 12 East 53rd Street

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Breakfast

10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Introduction 

10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Keynote Speaker 
Zach Davis, co-founder of Stylitics 

11:15 a.m. -12:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions A & B

Session A: Fourth floor

How to Sell Fashion Online?: Business Model Innovation in Fashion Retailing – An Evolutionary Perspective
Ansgar Buschmann, Post-Doc at the Chair for Organization, HR and Innovation, University of Muenster, Germany

Can Luxury Do Social?: An Exploratory Study of Use of Social Media Platforms for Customer Service by Luxury Fashion Brands

Gretchen Harnick, Assistant Professor, Parsons, the New School for Design

Visionary Young Men: The Subversion of Gender through Fashion Consumption

Ben Barry, Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, Canada
Dylan Martin, MA Fashion Candidate, Ryerson University, Canada

Session B: Fashionopolis

Multiple Perspectives in CSR Best Practices in the Fashion Business
Gayathri Banavara, Lecturer of Marketing, Management & Finance, LIM College

From Handicraft to High Street: The Paradigm Shift of African Fashion

Thomaï Serdari, Director of Research Collections and Adjunct Professor, New York University

Sustainability in Action: The Case of Kering

Nicole Kirpalani, Associate Chair of Marketing, Management, & Finance, Associate Professor, LIM College

12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m 
Concurrent Sessions C & D

Session C: Fourth floor

Women’s Wear Daily Digital Archive: From Inaccessible to Revelatory
Alexandra Bernet, Digital Archivist, Condé Nast
Peg Knight, Senior Product Manager, ProQuest
Dan Nishimoto, Digital Assets Analyst, Condé Nast

Tracking Fashion in the Newspaper Archive: Effective Data Retrieval

Margaret Fain, Reference/Instruction Librarian, Coastal Carolina University

Finding Needles in a Fashionable Haystack: Using N-gram Search on the Vogue Archive
Lindsay King, Public Services Librarian, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University

Session D: Fashionopolis

Augmented Reality in Fashion: Database & Rhetorics in the Experience Economy
Kenneth Kambara, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Management & Finance, LIM College

Downloadable You: Wearable Technology, Embodiment, and the Future of Digital Human Interface

Elizabeth Wissinger, Associate Professor of Sociology, BMCC/City University of New York

Trademark Infringement and the Prickly Ambivalence of Post-Parodic Fashion

Charles Colman, Acting Assistant Professor, New York University School of Law

2:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m
Break

2:45 p.m - 3:45 p.m 
Concurrent Sessions E & F

Session E: Fourth floor

How About a Kiss?: Advice Literature for Women and Girls, from Schlesigner Library Collections
Diana Carey, Reference Librarian, Visual Resources, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Susan Earle, Manuscript Cataloger, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Fashion and Style in Young Adult Reality Novels: Looking at Themes from Recent Publications

Suz Massen, Chief of Public Services, Frick Art Reference Library, The Frick Collection

Look for the Union Label Timeline
Jai Khalsa, Collections Assistant IV, Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University

Session F: Fashionopols

One Garment, Many Narratives: Perspectives on the Image and Museum Fashion Collection Online Database
Jill Morena, Assistant Curator for Costumes and Personal Effects, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Andre Studios 1930-1941: A New Frontier in Fashion Information Delivery and Digital Collaboration

Jessica Cline, Senior Librarian, Mid-Manhattan Library, New York Public Library

Wearable Ethnology: A Discussion of Clothing and Costume, Images of Cultural Anthropology from the American Museum of Natural History Library’s Digital Special Collections

Stacy Schiff, Visual Resources Librarian, American Museum of Natural History Research Library, American Museum of Natural History

3:45 p.m - 4:00 p.m 
Break

4:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m

Concurrent Sessions G and H

Session G: Fourth floor
Styling: How Art and Film Depictions of Cleopatra VII and Queen Elizabeth I Exuded Greatness
Lisa Lenoir, Assistant Professor of Fashion Communication, Stephens College

Fashion Bloggers Alter the Power of Traditional Fashion Gatekeepers: How Two Professions are Changing the Dynamic of Fashion Week

Yuwa Vosper-Woghiren, PhD Candidate, Louisiana State University

The Future of Fashion Neuromarketing: Where Fashion Consumer Research, Technology, and Neuroscience Intersect
Catherine Weiss, Professor, Lasell College

Ready-Made: A Brief History of Paper Patterns in the United States

Amber Paranick, Reference Librarian, Serial & Government Publications Division, Library of Congress

Session H: Fashionopolis

Evolution and Technological Advancement of the Silhouette: Aesthetics to Artistry in Film
Bernie Murray, Associate Professor, Ryerson University, Canada

Clothes Make the Man: Dandyism, Cross-Dressing and the Genderqueer Expression in Silent and Early Sound Film

Rachel King, Media Librarian, LIU Brooklyn

Our Shelves Stealthily Dressed: Building a Fashion Collection, on the Quiet

Kristof Avramsson, Science and Engineering Librarian, Carleton University Library, Carleton University, Canada

5:00 p.m - 6:00 p.m

Session I

Session I: Fourth floor

Make it Work: Fashion Forecasting and the Library Instruction Class
Maria Rothenberg, Librarian-Reference and Instructional Services, Gladys Marcus Library, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY  

Forecasting the Forecasts: The Evolution of Trend Forecasting for Fashion Business

Nancy Ostroff, Associate Professor & Assistant Chair, Fashion Merchandising Management Department, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY  
Marian Weston, Adjunct Assistant Professor & Reference Librarian, Gladys Marcus Library Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY  

DECODING COLOR + TREND FOR FALL 14
Merrill Greene, Creative Director and Trend Forecaster

6:00 p.m.
Reception

Schedule Day 3
SATURDAY, October 25th, 2014

LIM College Townhouse, 12 East 53rd Street

9:00 a.m. -10:00 a.m.
Closing Breakfast

10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m
Introduction and Presentation of Ron Knoth Scholarship

10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Ron Knoth Lecturer 
Steve Shapiro, president of Schwartz & Benjamin Footwear

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Break

11:15 a.m. -12:15 a.m. 
Concurrent Sessions J & K

Session J: Fourth floor
From Parties, Pinafores, and Pumps to PhDs: Mining The Costume Institute Records at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives for Future Study
Celia Hartmann, Senior Associate for Archival Processing, Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Arielle Dorlester, Assistant for Archival Processing, Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Current Training Practices in Fashion Studies
Chloe Chapin, Assistant Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY  

Material Culture and Object Analysis in the Fashion Curriculum

Diane Maglio, Professor, Berkeley College

Session K: Fashionopolis

Sheer Audacity – The Innovation of Pantyhose 1959-1969
Deirdre Farabaugh, M.A./M.L.I.S. Costume Studies/Library Science, New York University

Cotton: The Effects of Technology Past and Present on the Future of the Cotton Industry

LeeAnn Turgeon-Rutkovsky, Adjunct Professor, LIM College

Femme Power Origins

Janice Everett, Adjunct Professor, LIM College

12:15 p.m.—12:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks

12:30 p.m.

Museum Tours*

Museum at FIT – Exposed: A History of Lingerie & Dance and Fashion (two exhibitions) – unguided

The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Fashion in Art (general tour) – guided
Brooklyn Museum – Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe – guided

*The museum tours required pre-registration. You must have signed up for the tour when registering for the conference. Tours will depart from Townhouse at 12:30 p.m.

Fashion: Now & Then Conference Hotel Recommendations*

Standard Hotels (Two Star) 

Hotel31

120 East 31^st Street

New York, NY 10016

1-866-539-7280

Hotel St. James

109 West 45^th Street

New York, NY 10036

212-221-3600

Pod 51 Hotel

230 East 51^st Street

New York, NY 10022

212-355-0300 or 1-866-414-4617

Comfort Hotels (Three Star) 

Double Tree by Hilton Metropolitan – New York City

569 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10022

1-855-239-9478

New York Marriott East Side

525 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10017

212-755-4000 or 1-800-242-8684

Omni Berkshire Place

21 East 52^nd Street

New York, NY 10022

1-866-539-7280 or 1-800-843-6664

First Class Hotels (Four Star) 

Andaz 5^thAvenue

485 5^th Avenue

New York, NY 10017

212-601-1234

The Kitano Hotel

66 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10016

212-885-7000 or 1-800-KITANO-NY

Library Hotel

299 Madison Avenue

New York, NY 10017

212-983-4500

*Please note that LIM College does not have a relationship with these hotels. They are only being recommended for the conference due to proximity to the conference location. 

2014 Fashion: Now & Then: From Antiquity to Visionary Conference Registration

Registration is open on Eventville.  

Conference Rates				Early Bird*			After 9-15-2014
Full Conference** Attendance				$200			$225
Full Conference** Attendance (Presenters)				$150			$175
Full Conference Attendance** (Students with Valid ID)				$100			$125
Conference Support (Code Needed to Complete Registration)				$0			$0
Conference Rates for LIM College Students, Faculty & Staff				Early Bird*			After 9-15-2014
Full Conference Attendance				$50			$75
Friday ONLY Conference (10/24)				$25			$50
Saturday ONLY Conference (10/25)				$25			$50
Thursday Evening Opening Reception (10/23)				$25			$50
Conference Support (Code Needed to Complete Registration)				$0			$0

*Early Bird Rates apply to registration completed before September 15, 2014. 

Museum Tours Saturday, October 25th at 1pm					Available Spots
Museum at FIT - Exposed: A History of Lingerie & Dance and Fashion (two exhibitions) – unguided					34
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Fashion in Art (general tour – guided)					19
The Museum of the City of New York – Mac Conner: A New York Life – guided tour					19
Brooklyn Museum – Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe – guided					34

**The guided/unguided Museum Tours are an optional choice for Full Conference Attendees to attend after the Saturday program. Please only choose one tour option. Tour selections are completed with Full Conference registration on Eventville.

A limited number of scholarships are available to help offset conference fees. Contact David Benjamin david.benjamin@limcollege.edu for more information. 

Reminder: Fashion: Now & Then Proposals are Due Mon, 6/9

Fashion: Now & Then: From Antiquity to Visionary

Thursday, October 23 - Saturday, October 25, 2014

LIM College, New York City, NY

Call for Presentations

Fashion: Now & Then: From Antiquity to Visionary
Proposal Due Date: June 9, 2014

The Adrian G. Marcuse Library at LIM College invites participation in the fourth annual Fashion: Now & Then Conference, a three day conference in which participants will discuss the past, present, and future uses of fashion information and technology in fashion. Participants will be drawn from the fashion industry, libraries, archives, academic institutions, publishers, collectors, and museums to represent a full range of expertise.

The theme for this year’s Fashion: Now & Then Conference is From Antiquity to Visionary. We look forward to proposals that will demonstrate how fashion information and technology in fashion has evolved through time and how it will continue to evolve in the future. Proposal topics can include one or more of these subjects in relation to fashion or style: archives, blogs, books, business, collection development, collectors, designer archives, digital archives, digital collections, digitization projects, ephemera, fashion analytics, fashion forecasting, fashion history, fashion studies, film, librarians, libraries, magazines, mapping & data visualization, marketing, material culture, merchandising, museums, new media, oral history, patrons, photography, preservation, print & non-print media, product development, rare books, retail, social media, special collections, street style, textiles, and trend reporting.

Presentation Proposals and Notifications
Proposals for presentations should include: the name, title, affiliation, and email address of the author(s) and an abstract of the 15 minute paper or presentations (500 words or less). Email the proposal to proposals@limcollege.edu. Please submit the text of the proposal in the body of the email and as a PDF or Word attachment. The proposal due date is Monday, June 9, 2014.

Notification of proposal acceptance will occur Monday, June 23, 2014. 
At least one author of each accepted abstract must register for the conference and present the paper.

The event will take place in the LIM College Maxwell Hall (216 E. 45th Street between Second & Third Avenues) and Townhouse (12 E. 53rd Street between Fifth & Madison Avenues).

About LIM College
LIM College is focused exclusively on the study of business and fashion. Housed in four buildings in Manhattan, the College's unique curriculum combines in-class instruction with required fashion industry internships. LIM College offers a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program with tracks in Fashion Management and Entrepreneurship, Master of Professional Studies (MPS) degree programs in Fashion Merchandising & Retail Management, Fashion Marketing, and Visual Merchandising, a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in International Business, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degrees in Fashion Merchandising, Visual Merchandising, Marketing, and Management, as well as Bachelor of Professional Studies (BPS), Associate in Applied Science (AAS), and Associate in Occupational Studies (AOS) degrees in Fashion Merchandising. Founded in 1939, LIM College has been witness to every significant change in the retail and fashion industry for 75 years.

About the LIM College Library and Archives
The Adrian G. Marcuse Library houses a unique, specialized collection, focusing on the fashion industry and LIM College’s major areas of study in a variety of formats (books, magazines, DVDs, e-books, electronic databases). The LIM College Archives consists of three major collections: LIM College Records, Special Collections, and Rare Books. The mission of the LIM College Archives is to identify, collect, organized, describe, preserve and make accessible the enduring records of LIM College and materials related to the fashion industry.

Additional Information & Contact

If you have any questions please contact Nicole LaMoreaux, Reference & Instruction Librarian at LIM College nicole.lamoreaux@limcollege.edu

Previous Fashion: Now & Then Conference Information 

For additional information about the upcoming Fashion: Now & Then Conference or to view information about previous Fashion: Now & Then Conferences:

Fashion: Now & Then Blog: http://fashionnowandthen.blogspot.com/

2014 Call for Presentations: Fashion: Now & Then: From Antiquity to Visionary

Fashion: Now & Then: From Antiquity to Visionary

Thursday, October 23 - Saturday, October 25, 2014

LIM College, New York City, NY

Call for Presentations

Fashion: Now & Then: From Antiquity to Visionary

Proposal Due Date: June 9, 2014

The Adrian G. Marcuse Library at LIM College invites participation in the fourth annual Fashion: Now & Then Conference, a three day conference in which participants will discuss the past, present, and future uses of fashion information and technology in fashion. Participants will be drawn from the fashion industry, libraries, archives, academic institutions, publishers, collectors, and museums to represent a full range of expertise.

The theme for this year’s Fashion: Now & Then Conference is From Antiquity to Visionary. We look forward to proposals that will demonstrate how fashion information and technology in fashion has evolved through time and how it will continue to evolve in the future. Proposal topics can include one or more of these subjects in relation to fashion or style: archives, blogs, books, business, collection development, collectors, designer archives, digital archives, digital collections, digitization projects, ephemera, fashion analytics, fashion forecasting, fashion history, fashion studies, film, librarians, libraries, magazines, mapping & data visualization, marketing, material culture, merchandising, museums, new media, oral history, patrons, photography, preservation, print & non-print media, product development, rare books, retail, social media, special collections, street style, textiles, and trend reporting.

Presentation Proposals and Notifications

Proposals for presentations should include: the name, title, affiliation, and email address of the author(s) and an abstract of the 15 minute paper or presentations (<500 words). Email the proposal to proposals@limcollege.edu. Please submit the text of the proposal in the body of the email and as a PDF or Word attachment. The proposal due date is Monday, June 9, 2014.

Notification of proposal acceptance will occur Monday, June 23, 2014.

At least one author of each accepted abstract must register for the conference and present the paper.

The event will take place in the LIM College Maxwell Hall (216 E. 45^th Street between Second & Third Avenues) and Townhouse (12 E. 53^rd Street between Fifth & Madison Avenues).

About LIM College

LIM College is focused exclusively on the study of business and fashion. Housed in four buildings in Manhattan, the College’s unique curriculum combines in-class instruction with required fashion industry internships. LIM College offers a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program with tracks in Fashion Management and Entrepreneurship, Master of Professional Studies (MPS) degree programs in Fashion Merchandising & Retail Management, Fashion Marketing, and Visual Merchandising, a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in International Business, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degrees in Fashion Merchandising, Visual Merchandising, Marketing, and Management, as well as Bachelor of Professional Studies (BPS), Associate in Applied Science (AAS), and Associate in Occupational Studies (AOS) degrees in Fashion Merchandising. Founded in 1939, LIM College has been witness to every significant change in the retail and fashion industry for 75 years.

About the LIM College Library and Archives

The Adrian G. Marcuse Library houses a unique, specialized collection, focusing on the fashion industry and LIM College’s major areas of study in a variety of formats (books, magazines, DVDs, e-books, electronic databases). The LIM College Archives consists of three major collections: LIM College Records, Special Collections, and Rare Books. The mission of the LIM College Archives is to identify, collect, organized, describe, preserve and make accessible the enduring records of LIM College and materials related to the fashion industry.

Additional Information & Contact

For additional information about the upcoming Fashion: Now & Then Conference or to view information about previous Fashion: Now & Then Conferences:

Fashion: Now & Then Website: http://lim.ent.sirsi.net/client/fnt
Fashion: Now & Then Blog: http://fashionnowandthen.blogspot.com/
LIM College Website: http://www.limcollege.edu/

If you have any questions please contact Nicole LaMoreaux, Reference & Instruction Librarian at LIM College nicole.lamoreaux@limcollege.edu