“Tandem - Series”
Strategic Fashion
Debate:
Innovation & Continuity
for Branding the Fashion & Luxury Industry :
Patrimony & Design for the New Challenge
Florence Müller : Fashion historian and consultant,
former director and curator of UFAC at the Museum of Fashion in the Louvre,
Paris, Müller has published many books on fashion: "Histoire
de la Mode au XXè Siècle" with Yvonne Deslandres, the
re-actualization of the "Histoire du Costume en Occident" by
François Boucher, "La mode des annees 10", "La mode
des annees 20","La mode des annees 80","Le Chapeau,
une histoire de tetes" with Lydia Kamitsis, "Les Baskets, une
histoire de la chaussure de ville, de sport", "Art et Mode au
XXe Siècle", "Andam : La Mode contemporaine", "Excentriques",
"Belles en Vogue" and in the collection Mémoire de
la Mode: "Art et Mode" and "Jean-Charles de Castelbajac".
Müller has curated numerous exhibitions and events in collaboration
with the most important fashion museums and institutions all over the
world. Recently, in September 2004, Müller curated the first ever
fashion exhibition in Brazil "Passion Fashion" in Sao Paulo.
Müller is Professor at Institut Francais de la Mode (IFM) where she
teaches the History of Fashion.
Beth Dincuff Charleston
: Former manager of Calvin Klein archives and consultant for the Gap,
the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and
The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), Charleston has managed the
Collection at the Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
since 2002 [Charleston, Beth] and has contributed to "Goddess",
"Men in Skirts", and "Dangerous Liaisons". In June
2004, Charleston presented at the conference Ptychoseis: Folds & Pleats
at the Benaki Museum Athens.
Charleston is a guest lecturer at FIT and an active member of the Costume
Society of America (CSA).