Overview
Project status: In progress
The project is connected to an important creative industry activity (fashion), it has a creative outcome, as well as a traditional output (publication), it is local but it provides a framework for more similar histories and it has an international breath as it deals with changes in this local economic activity that have been brought about by globalisation.
- Research team
- QUT
- Organisational unit
- Lead unit Creative Industries Faculty
- Research area
- Sustainability and innovation in design
Dr Tiziana Ferrero-RegisDetails
Abstract
This project investigates the contribution of migrants in the fashion industry in Brisbane. It starts with a study of Italian dress-makers and tailors who worked in the Valley in the 1950s. It traces the development of a vibrant community of tailors and demi-couturiers and the subsequent disappearance of the figure of the dress-maker as ready-to-wear became more available. The project also addresses a number of questions related to skills and creativity connected with the practice of dress-making and tailoring from the 1950s.
Project description
The project consists in two parts. The first is the curatorship of an exhibition to be held during the Italian week in June 2010. The exhibition will be a multimedia display related to the first Italian fashion show in Brisbane in 1959. The second part is a study of the history of Italian dress-making in Brisbane. Research includes analysis of primary sources from State Library and interviews with the protagonists of this important aspect of Brisbane's fashion history.
Partnerships
- Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Queensland Multicultural Affairs
