I Jornadas de Historia, Arte y Diseño de Moda

“Indumentaria y estética en la Edad Media: precedentes para la moda contemporánea” (“Clothing and aesthetics in the Middle Ages: precedents for contemporary fashion”)

Museo del Traje – Madrid. 25, 26 and 27 March 2014.

Organised by CSDMM (Centro Superior de Diseño de Moda de Madrid), Museo del Traje de Madrid and University Complutense of Madrid.

Experts in history, fashion theory, art history, textiles, sociology, archaeology, etc., will meet to discuss the shape of men and women’s clothes in the Middle Ages, as well as commercial routes, formal and social precedents, and new techniques in textiles or dyes. There are five scheduled sessions:

I. RUPTURAS Y PERVIVENCIAS DE LA ANTIGÜEDAD EN LA EDAD MEDIA. (Rupture and survival from Antiquity to the Middle Ages)

II. LA TRADICIÓN INDUMENTARIA EN BIZANCIO Y EL ISLAM. (Clothing tradition in Byzantium and Islam)

III. LA INDUMENTARIA Y LA MODA EN LA EUROPA CRISTIANA. (Clothing and fashion in Christian Europe)

IV. LA MODA CONTEMPORÁNEA Y SU RELACIÓN CON EL MEDIOEVO. (Contemporary fashion and its relationship with the Middle Ages)

V. VISITA A LAS COLECCIONES DEL MUSEO DEL TRAJE. CIPE. (A visit to the Museo del Traje’s collections)

The inscription is free. For more information, please visit the following website: http://www.csdmm.upm.es/grinves/grinves.html