[Discussion] Producing Fashion

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Call for Papers

Producing Fashion

For a conference October 28 and 29, 2005 the Center for the History of
Business, Technology, and Society invites papers that examine the
production of fashion in consumer societies in any region of the world.
The conference will be held at the Hagley Museum and Library in
Wilmington, Delaware. Clothing, home furnishings, appliances, cosmetics
are all part of fashion systems whereby design and function merge in the
effort to attract consumer attention - and money. For this conference we
invite papers that consider how fashion is produced on the level of
ideas and style as well as the materials and technologies employed to
construct the very items themselves. Papers should consider the practice
of producing fashion, especially business and technological aspects, and
should do more than present studies of prescriptive literature such as
advertising. Proposals are due by *March 1, 2005,* should be
approximately 500 words and accompanied by a short cv. *Travel funds may
be available for presenters. *Direct proposals and queries to:

	Roger Horowitz
Associate Director
Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
Hagley Museum and Library
PO Box 3630
Wilmington DE 19807
phone: 302-658-2400, x244
fax: 302-655-3188
Email: rhorowitz@hagley.org <mailto:rhorowitz@hagley.org>