CURRENT POSITION
Contract holder for official course in Global Communication Management for Fashion
I am a costume and fashion historian with a BA in Art History (East Anglia University, UK) and Postgraduate Higher Education course, MA in History of Dress (Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK). I further specialized in antique dress restoration at the Palazzo Spinelli School, Florence. An interest in contemporary fashion led me to Milan for an initial ten-year career as a freelance stylist with various fashion publications and companies. Since 2005 I have dedicated myself to teaching fashion history. I currently teach courses at Istituto Marangoni Milan, University of Bergamo and the Victoria and Albert Museum Academy in London. In 2011-12 I attended the university teaching qualification course: Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Manchester Metropolitan University) graduating with Honors. Since 2012 I have been a Fellow of the Higher Education Society, UK
Exhibition curatorial activity since 2019, co-curating Di "Boldini e la Moda" Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara. I have curated exhibitions or sections of exhibitions at MAGA, Gallarate, Museo Lechi, Montichiari (BS), Palazzo Martinengo, Brescia
Member of the Costume Society, UK and the Association of Dress Historians, UK
LINES OF RESEARCH
- History of fashion production, trade and communication in Milan in the long nineteenth century
- Luxury and fashion in the Italian Renaissance
- Collecting period clothing: preservation and display
- History of fashion communication
DISCIPLINARY GROUP
SECS P/08 ECON-07/A
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