1. EFHA Conference 2018 - Intro

Europe and Fashion: Questioning Identities and Cultures. EFHA Conference 2018

The conference involved world-leading academic institutions, archives and museums, encouraging discourse across disciplines, institutional and national boundaries. Through a carefully selected line-up of speakers, the aim was to reconsider assumptions about the place of dress and fashion in the definition of European cultures and offer new and critical perspectives on the role of dress and fashion in relation to many issues, as: individual and collective identities, European policy, colonialism and post-colonialism, cultural exchange and transmission, cultural displacement and appropriation, the fashion capital and nation, centre and periphery. The contributions also addressed heritage, archives formations and museums as catalysers of cultural discourses, as well as explore identity formations in Europe in a wider socio-cultural context, both theoretically and historically.

The conference was organised by the European Fashion Heritage Association in collaboration with the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, The New School - Parsons Paris, IUAV University of Venice and London College of Fashion - University of the Arts London, with the patronage of the French Ministry of Culture. The event was also listed among the initiatives part of 2018 - European Year for Cultural Heritage.