M&Others: Motherhood in Fashion conference

This is the registration page for the in-person conference and book launch for M&Others: Motherhood in fashion exhibition, on December 9, 13-17h30, at Zebrastraat Gent. The conference is organised by Revers (UGent) and the Modemuseum Hasselt, in collaboration with Lannoo. The conference is funded as part of the FWO senior research project led by Prof. Bass-Krueger. The venue is the Ned Kahn auditorium of the Zebrastraat venue, Gent.

Programme:

13u Welcome. Maude Bass-Krueger (UGent)

13:00-13:15: Introduction by Karen Van Godtsenhoven (UGent) and Eve Demoen (Modemuseum Hasselt)

13:20-13:40: Francesca Granata (Parsons - The New School), "Fashioning the Pregnant Body: Gynophobia and Experimental Fashion from the 1980s Onwards"

13:40-14:00: Lydia Kamitsis (independent curator), "Madeleine Vionnet: Matrix"

14:00-14:15: Karen Van Godtsenhoven (Universiteit Gent, "Mother-daughter transmission in fashion creation: Sonia and Nathalie Rykiel"

14:15-14:30: Eve Demoen (Modemuseum Hasselt), "Mother as Muse"

Questions until 14:45

Break

15:15-15:35: Pauline Devriese (Modemuseum Hasselt) and Tirza Westland (Kunstmuseum Den Haag), "Unexpected: Developing Object-Based Methods for Tracing Historical Pregnancy Dresses in Museum Collections"

15:35-16:00: Roundtable on Non-Normative Bodies in Museum Exhibitions: Pauline Devriese, Tirza Westland, Wim Mertens (MoMu Antwerpen), Caroline Esgain (Brussels Fashion and Lace Museum). Moderated by Maude Bass-Krueger

16:00-16:30: MSc Zelda (Fitzgerald) Dapaah, representing the Xclusive House of Lanvin FOR ALL QUEENS!, "The multifunctionality of Fabulosity: The case of the African Mother"

16:30. Conclusion by Karolien De Clippel (Modemuseum Hasselt)

16:40-17:15: Book launch ‘M&Others. Fashion and Motherhood’ and signing in the presence of the authors

(c) Images by Sam Gilbert/ Modemuseum Hasselt