FASHION, MEMORY & THE POLITICS OF HERITAGE

Today the attention to the cultural heritage is at the centre of a variety of public and private activities in the fields of fashion and design.

Under the guidance of Marco Pecorari, the Parson’s school students in Paris have worked on this topic with a particular attention to the creation of heritage in fashion.

The results of their work are expected on 9 December 2021, with a publication:

"Alaïa and Poiret: exploring Fashion Heritage" organised in collaboration with Azzedine Alaïa Foundation. For this project students had the chance to visit Alaïa archives and question issues of value and heritage, and investigate the history behind the creation of the 2005 auction ‘La Création en Liberté. Univers de Paul et Denise Paul Poiret’. Questioning and employing oral history as a method, students explored the role of heritage as gender, authorities, as activation of the past, as identity and emotions. These analyses emerged from a hybridization of the field of heritage studies with fashion studies; and a series of interviews with academics, curators, friends and family members of both Alaïa, Denise and Paul Poiret.

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