Educator

Professional Experience - A Selection

  • 2006 to 2008 - Extreme Bodies; Managing a Costume Collection
  • 2000 to present - Defining Contemporary Dress; History, Literature + Exhibition.
  • 1999 to present - SAIC Adjunct Professor
  • 1991 to present - The Shape of Fashion in the 20th + 21st Centuries
  • 1989 to present - Metalsmith
  • 1987 to present - Director SAIC* Fashion Resource Center

Lectures - A Selection

  • 2010 - Highland Park Arts Center; Maximum Exposure; Man Ray + Fashion
  • 2009 - The Arts Club of Chicago; Maximum Exposure: Man Ray in Fashion
  • 2008 - Alliance Francaise; Chicago Yves St Laurent
  • 2008 - Costume Colloquium Florence Italy; Scattered Remnants in the Present
  • 2007 - The Art Institute of Chicago Man Ray; Maximum Exposure
  • 2006 - The Art Institute of Chicago Fashion Passes, Style Remains; Chanel
  • 2006 - The Arts Club of Chicago Material Tracings; Vionnet + James
  • 2006 - Costume Society of America Annual Symposium Fiercely Independent; Clothes Closets in an Art School
  • 2006 - The Arts Club of Chicago Shocking is Always in Style; Elsa Schiaparelli
  • 2006 - Illinois Institute of Technology A New Beauty + Functionality: American Fashion Designers
  • 2004 - The Arts Club of Chicago Americans Ascending
  • 2004 - Museum of Contemporary Art Lecture Series Seamless
  • 2003 - Uniformity Fashionable National Uniform Vendors Association; Chicago
  • 2001 - Costume Society of America Region III + IV Annual Symposium Steele Will: Lawrence Steele Under Surveillance
  • 2000 - Northwestern University Toujors Coutures
  • 2000 - L'Universita dell' Immagine Questo Secolo Americano; Stilisti Americani Milan, Italy
  • 1999 - Field Museum The Glory of Couture
  • 1997 - Museum of Contemporary Art Lecture Series Cinema and Fashion Chicago
  • 1997 - St. Louis Art Museum Mariano Fortuny; The Pleasing Pleat

Publications

  • 2007 - Society for Contemporary Craft - Exhibition Publication - Beneath the Surfaces-Nick Cave
  • 2004 - Italian Designers - Fashion Encyclopedia Charles Scribner's Sons
  • 2004 - In Praise of Vanity - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago - Exhibition Publication - Skin Tight
  • 2002 - Dress magazine - review - Reconstructing Italian Fashion
  • 2000 - Dress magazine - review - Versace New York + Versace Como
  • 1996 - Dress magazine - review - Dior
  • 1995 - Dress magazine - review - Infra-Apparel
  • 1990 - Contemporary Designers St. James Press, Prada and Cinzia Ruggeri
  • 1984 - Contemporary Designers St. James Press, Albini, Biagiotti, Fendi, Missoni, Valentino

SAIC* Activities

  • Travel co-coordinator and instructor -
    2002 - Belgium + Holland
    1999 - Paris, London + Milan
    1990 - Italy
    1986 - England
    1985 - Italy
    1984 - Japan
    1980 - Italy
  • 1999 to 1981 - Student Intership liason. Prenatal, Raggazeria + Intimo Tre, clothing companies Milan, Italy
  • 1997, 1996 - Founding member - Part Time Faculty Advisory Committee
  • 1987 - Beijing Academy of Arts - Accessory Design

Education

  • 1965 to 1969 - Apprentice - Elvira Del Rosso Textiles, Milan Italy
  • 1965 to 1966 - Academia di Belle Arti, Florence Italy
  • 1963 to 1965 - Moore College of Art, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Affiliations

  • 1997 to 2001 - Costume Society of America Region III + IV Treasurer
  • 1985 to present - Costume Society of America

* School of the Art Institute of Chicago