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FASHION BUYERS
As autumn approaches the shops are filling up with the new season's fashions. But can we actually find anything we want to wear? And who decides that we should all be wearing green one season, and purple the next?
Laurie Taylor talks to Dr Jo Entwistle,Senior Research Fellow in the Sociology of Fashion at the London College of Fashion, about her study of fashion buyers and how they decide what to put into the shops.
CONFLICT LANDMARKS
This year's Design History Society conference, entitled The Politics of Design takes place at the University of Ulster between September 9th and 11th. One of the sessions at the conference is entitled 'Sites of history/Sites of conflict'.
Laurie Taylor is joined by Dr John Schofield, Head of Military Programmes at English Heritage and Visiting Lecturer at Southampton University and Dr Louise Purbrick , cultural historian and Senior Lecturer in Art and Design History at Brighton University, to discuss what we should do with conflict landmarks - the buildings which are left behind after wars, civil strife or divisions?
Is it better to forget structures like the Berlin Wall, Greenham Common or the Maze Prison? Or should they be preserved as a way of remembering conflict and helping those involved to make sense of a painful past?
Additional information
Dr Jo Entwistle
Senior Research Fellow in the Sociology of Fashion at the London College of Fashion
Jo wrote a report (May 2004) funded by the ESRC on fashion buyers: 'Between production and consumption: fashion buyers as cultural intermediaries'
Dr John Schofield
Head of Military Programmes at English Heritage and Visiting Lecturer at Southampton University
Dr Louise Purbrick
Senior Lecturer in Art and Design History at the School of Historical and Critical Studies, Brighton University .
Dr Louise Purbrick is the convenor of a session on Sites of history/sites of conflict at this year's Design History Society conference entitled The Politics of Design .
Conference:
The Politics of Design
Date: 9th - 11th September 2004
Venue: Belfast Campus,
University of Ulster
Book:
The Maze
by Donovan Whylie
(with an essay by Louise Purbrick ) published by Granta Books
ISBN 1 86207 684 7
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