About MOME:
Founded in 1880 as the Hungarian Royal National School of Arts and Crafts, the school was renamed after the famed Bauhaus artist and professor László Moholy-Nagy in 2006. The university includes bachelor's, master's, as well as doctoral programs in fashion and design.
Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem
(Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design)
Divatarchívumok (Fashion Archives)
Professor, Department of Graduate Studies
Course description:
Archives are a relatively new addition to the the fashionscape. As repositories of objects that were designed and/or utilized within the fashion system, archives preserve and make them available for a variety of end-users, including designers, students, researchers, and more. In Divatarchívumok (Fashion Archives), students will learn about theoretical underpinnings, different types of fashion archives, basic collections management techniques, as well as ethical considerations that question the future of these institutions. Through a wide variety of readings and discussions, students will become familiar with this largely unexplored aspect of fashion, and will utilize this knowledge to create a case study final project: an archive of their own in which they develop a collections policy, and document their collection with proper labels and condition reports.
This is the first and only course available in Hungary on this topic.
About PTE:
Originally founded in 1367, PTE is the oldest university in Hungary. Their Department of Communications and Media (Kommunikáció és Médiatudományi Tanszék) integrates several non-traditional areas of academic inquiry, including fashion studies.
Pécsi Tudományegyetem (University of Pécs)
Fashion Behind the Scenes: Archives and History
Guest Lecturer, Department of Communications and Media
Abstract:
Aside from the glamorous, celebrity-filled pages of Vogue, replete with exorbitantly expensive clothing, there is a network of specialists who manage and preserve fashion. What does it mean to ‘archive’ fashion both theoretically and in practice? How does one research, interpret, and write about fashion through a historical lens, and why do those studies matter? Join Doris Domoszlai-Lantner, a New York-based archivist and historian specializing in fashion and dress, for a talk on the projects and studies she has undertaken as part of the vital foundational work realized by practice-based and academic professionals in the field of fashion.