Anne Coco, the Graphic Arts Librarian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library will Present at Fashion: Now & Then

On Friday, October 19th Anne Coco will present Altering the System: American Costume Design, 1948-1980 at the Fashion: Now & Then conference at LIM College.

Anne Coco is the Graphic Arts Librarian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library.  She holds a bachelor’s degree in film studies from California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and a MLIS from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).  She oversees the Library’s collection of two-dimensional works on paper, which includes one of the largest known collections of motion picture costume design drawings.

In 1998, Ms. Coco co-curated the exhibition “The Origins of Screen Style: Hollywood Costume Sketches from the Leonard Stanley Archive.”  She presented “Drawn into Hollywood: Documenting Costume Design in the Movies” at the Costume Society of America’s 32nd Annual Meeting and National Symposium in 2006.  Her essay, “Drawing on Film: Access, Cataloging and Conservation of Costume Design Drawings at the Margaret Herrick Library” was published in Documenting: Costume Design (2010).

On Friday, October 19th and Saturday, October 20th professionals from the fashion industry, libraries, archives, academic institutions, publishers, and museums will gather at LIM College for Fashion: Now & Then, a conference on the past, present, and future uses of fashion information that will consist of lectures and panel discussions.

Read more about the Fashion: Now & Then conference.

Registration is closed at this time. If you would like to be placed on the wait list, please contact Lisa Ryan at library@limcollege.edu

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"Beyond the Bun: Style Perceptions of Library Workers" by Nicole Pagowsky

Nicole Pagowsky is an Instructional Services Librarian at the University of Arizona. She created Librarian Wardrobe in 2010, a mostly user-generated blog to serve as a catalog of how information professionals dress for work. Nicole is interested in user experience and visual perceptions of information workers, which is explored through interviews and other mediated posts. With a variety of stereotypes floating around about librarians, whether it is buns and shushing or tattoos and social clubs, the blog hopes to dispel these assumptions and question whether they even matter. Nicole developed a program on style, stereotypes, and perceptions for a packed room at the American Library Association 2012 Annual Conference; and participated in a panel on developing a niche through Librarian Wardrobe, within communities of librarians. Nicole’s presentation will focus on internal and external perceptions of library workers and how content from Librarian Wardrobe is used by both information professionals and the public.

On Friday, October 19th and Saturday, October 20th professionals from the fashion industry, libraries, archives, academic institutions, publishers, and museums will gather at LIM College for Fashion: Now & Then, a conference on the past, present, and future uses of fashion information that will consist of lectures and panel discussions.

Read more about the Fashion: Now & Then conference.

Registration is closed at this time. If you would like to be placed on the wait list, please contact Lisa Ryan at library@limcollege.edu

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Lindsay King to Present "The Role of Fashion in an Academic Library Collection"

Lindsay King is the Public Services Librarian in the Haas Arts Library at Yale University, where she serves as the liaison to the Yale School of Drama. She previously worked in the Art Collection at Northwestern University Library and in museum education at the Art Institute of Chicago. Lindsay holds an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois and an MA in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her presentation is based on the article she co-authored with Russell T. Clement, "Style and Substance: Fashion in Twenty-First-Century Research Libraries," published in the spring 2012 issue of Art Documentation.

On Friday, October 19th and Saturday, October 20th professionals from the fashion industry, libraries, archives, academic institutions, publishers, and museums will gather at LIM College for Fashion: Now & Then, a conference on the past, present, and future uses of fashion information that will consist of lectures and panel discussions.

Read more about the Fashion: Now & Then conference.

Registration is closed at this time. If you would like to be placed on the wait list, please contact Lisa Ryan at library@limcollege.edu

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Suz Massen to Moderate Panel: Style Blogs

Photo by Benjamin Lee from his street style blog Street Green Photo

Suz Massen is moderating a panel: Style Blogs on Saturday, October 20th for Fashion: Now & Then at LIM College.  The panelists include Xavier Aaronson, Babes at the Museum; Ari Seth Cohen, Advanced Style; and Elisa Goodkind and Lily Mandelbaum, StyleLikeU.

Suz Massen has an advanced degree in information and library science from the University at Albany, State University of New York.  She also holds an undergraduate degree in art history from Binghamton University, State University of New York, and recently finished her thesis for an advanced degree in art history from Hunter College, City University of New York. An information generalist, Suz prefers to know a moderate amount about many things instead of knowing much about a specific thing. She feels that knowing how to find information is more important than knowing it by heart. Suz enjoys visual dictionaries, graphic novels, and vintage etiquette books. She focuses on pursuits that will aid her in not just being a librarian (as she already is), but in being a super librarian (what she aspires to be).

On Friday, October 19th and Saturday, October 20th professionals from the fashion industry, libraries, archives, academic institutions, publishers, and museums will gather at LIM College for Fashion: Now & Then, a conference on the past, present, and future uses of fashion information that will consist of lectures and panel discussions.

Read more about Fashion: Now & Then

Registration is closed at this time. If you would like to be placed on the wait list, please contact Lisa Ryan at library@limcollege.edu

Thomaï Serdari to Present "Why Fashion Forward Institutions Need to Invest in Community Managers"

With a career of 15 years as Director of Research Collections at the Department of Art History, New York University, Thomaï Serdari is an expert in articulating new research questions and defining interdisciplinary areas of inquiry. Her research focuses on the intersection of fine arts and commerce, a field she calls “luxury arts” and which includes luxury goods in the areas of fashion, product design, and architecture. Her ideas developed into the core course for the Luxury Marketing specialization at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Additionally, Thomaï teaches “Cultures of Excess: Product and Fashion Design through Modernity,” “Research Methods,” and “Entrepreneurship in the Business of Art” also at NYU.

Thomaï is currently working on two books, the biography of Robert Rosenblum, American art historian, and a textbook on entrepreneurship in the arts. She maintains an independent practice as a USPAP qualified appraiser in fine and luxury arts. She is the founder of Ad Nobile, a think tank dedicated to the research of processes, products, and strategies in the luxury segment of the market. Thomaï holds a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

On Friday, October 19th and Saturday, October 20th professionals from the fashion industry, libraries, archives, academic institutions, publishers, and museums will gather at LIM College for Fashion: Now & Then, a conference on the past, present, and future uses of fashion information that will consist of lectures and panel discussions.

Read more about the Fashion: Now & Then conference.



Registration is closed at this time. If you would like to be placed on the wait list, please contact Lisa Ryan at library@limcollege.edu

DO DO THAT VOODOO!

The Ron Knoth Fashion: Now & Then Keynote Speaker

October 20, 2012

9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.   

DO DO THAT VOODOO! Sex, Sin, Snakes and "The Dusky Other" in 20th Century Popular Culture presented by Amanda Hallay, LIM College

From the turn of the 20th century onward, popular culture has fallen under the spell of Voodoo, its mysterious African origins having little to do with the West’s reinvention of the faith as an instantly recognizable signifier of all that is exotic, all that is sinful, all that is sexy. Professor Hallay’s lecture will trace the various interpretation of Voodoo through 20th popular culture, explaining why it was particularly embraced by certain eras, and finishing off with today’s obsession with Zombies, discussing the challenges she faced when writing her book on the subject, The Popular History of Voodoo (The History Press, 2013) in terms of sourcing material; whilst Voodoo as religion is well archived, its place in popular culture is harder to disinter. Is it the ‘taboo’ nature of Voodoo the reason for its lack of presence in pop culture archives, or was it seen as too silly, sexy, cheap and ‘sensationalist’ to be considered of any lasting cultural value?

Amanda Hallay, Assistant Clinical Professor at LIM College, is an author and cultural historian specializing in various aspects of 20th century popular culture and how each acts as a catalyst to another (as explored in her courses Cultural Connections to Fashion, Pop Century and Who Wore What When, created and taught exclusively at LIM College). The author of several books exploring 20th century pop culture, Professor Hallay’s book, The Popular History of Voodoo will be released by The History Press in 2013, and she will be presenting her research (and the challenges she met due to the lack of archiving of what many in the 20th century perceived as ‘lowbrow’) in her talk, DO DO THAT VOODO! Sex, Sin, Snakes and ‘The Dusky Other’ in 20th Century Popular Culture.

Amanda is the former International Fashion Editor of Couture and Men Mode magazines, and was at one time European Trend Analyst for the Doneger Group, a fashion forecasting service. She is a graduate of the American University of Paris and England’s Bath Spa University.

Read more about Fashion: Now & Then

Registration is closed at this time. If you would like to be placed on the wait list, please contact Lisa Ryan at library@limcollege.edu

Update on 2012 Fashion: Now & Then

Read about some of the presenters at the 2012 Fashion: Now & Then symposium to be held on Friday, October 19th and Saturday October 20th at LIM College.  Bios of more participants and information about registration will we added soon!

The event will take place in the LIM College Townhouse at 12 East 53^rd Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues.