Booking fees
£1.50 booking fee per online/phone transaction.
No fee when tickets are booked in person.
Booking fees are per transaction and not per ticket. If your booking contains several events the highest booking fee will apply. The booking fee may be reduced on certain events. Members do not pay booking fees.
Speakers
Alice Gomme is a multidisciplinary artist, trained at London’s Slade School of Fine Art. She lived on the road for many years, during which time she discovered and excavated rag yards across Europe. Her extensive clothing archive specialises in repaired and mended textiles from the 1900s. It is used as a resource across film, fashion and education.
Max Pearmain grew up in Norwich and studied BA sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art before going onto work at I-D magazine. Now freelance and working with photographers including David Sims, Tyrone Lebon, Alasdair McLellan and Theo Sion, and brands including Chanel, Hermes, Gucci and Stone Island.
Caroline Evans is a fashion historian and Professor Emerita at Central Saint Martins. Her books include Women and Fashion (1989), Fashion at the Edge (2003), The Mechanical Smile (2013), and Time in Fashion (2020). She has lectured widely at international design schools and universities and has acted as a museum consultant on several fashion exhibitions, including at the V&A London, Museum of London, MoMu Antwerp, and the Palais Galleria in Paris.
Eilidh Duffy is obsessed with fashionable dress and its relationship to social and political upheaval. Her work has appeared in style and culture titles across the UK, US and Europe and formerly held the position of Senior Writer at i-D. She holds an MA in the History of Design from the V&A/RCA and edits the blog Bog.
Ellen Sampson is an artist and material culture researcher whose work uses film, photography, object making and writing to explore the materiality of garments, our tactile entanglements with them and the power of bodily traces. Ellen is Assistant Professor in Design at Northumbria School of Design, the author of Worn: Footwear Attachment and the Affects of Wear (Bloomsbury 2020) and an editor of Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
Jon Astbury
Assistant Curator for Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion
Frobisher Auditorium 1
Location
Level 4,
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS
Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.
