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Fashion is often studied from a purely theoretical perspective, from a costume history or dress history viewpoint, or from a popular media-driven vantage point. 'The Enterprise of Culture: international structures and connections in the fashion industry since 1945' breaks new ground, using the fashion business to examine how various types of cultural encounters – between 'core' fashion cities such as Paris and London and 'peripheral' areas such as Sweden and Scotland, between style labs and the high street, and between fibre makers, clothing manufacturers, and retailers – stimulated innovation, and created a new and competitive industry. This European Union-funded project involved researchers from the universities of Leeds, Erasmus Rotterdam, Oslo, Newcastle, St Andrews, and Heriot-Watt, and from the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Centre for Business History Stockholm.
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The Synthetics Revolution
The Enterprise of Culture
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The Synthetics Revolution: Man-made fibres and everyday fashion - exhibition late opening
Join us on Monday 12 December between 5.00 and 7.30pm to mark the conclusion of this collaborative project and for a last chance to see the exhibition before it closes.
ULITA textiles archive handling session and exhibition introduction
An introduction to our exhibition, The Synthetics Revolution with a colour chemistry sample boards handling session on 15 November 2016.
Leeds Art Walk
Our current exhibition, The Synthetics Revolution: Man-made fibres and everyday fashion, is featured in the next Leeds Art Walk on 2 November.