Front and (Off-)Centre: Fashion and Southeast Asia | Day Two

Southeast Asia has by and large been on the margins of fashion history. This conference places it front and centre, and highlights the diversity and sophistication of fashion practices relating to the region, which includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. In doing so, it contributes to ongoing efforts to decentralise fashion studies.

Here are three questions that inform the conference: How do fashion practitioners who have ties to Southeast Asia engage with the self, their local and regional communities, as well as the global fashion system? What are the ideas and values that underpin the work they do? And what are the common threads and unique characteristics that define fashion from the region, if any?

Over two days, through academic papers and industry presentations, we will weave in and out of archives, businesses, exhibitions, magazines, wardrobes and more. The multi-faceted collage will document beginnings, continuations and interventions from various participants in the Southeast Asian fashion community, and showcase the inherent creativity in this part of the world. It is by no means exhaustive, and will be the first of many gatherings to think and talk about connections and interactions between fashion and Southeast Asia.

“Front and (Off-)Centre: Fashion and Southeast Asia” takes place at The Courtauld Research Forum on Zoom, and is free for all to attend with registration. It is organised in collaboration with Fashion & Market (FAM), a multimedia platform that presents specialist content on Southeast Asian fashion, featuring its community’s interdisciplinary practices.

Organised by Dr Rebecca Arnold (The Courtauld) and Dr Nadya Wang (LASALLE College of the Arts)

Programme Day 2

Welcome 'Continuing Conversations' Dr Nadya Wang

Session 5: Sustainability in Fashion. Chaired by Aqilah Zailan

'Accrediting Ethical Fashion: B Corp Certification and Social Enterprise in Indonesia' Dr Harriette Richards

'Notes on the Wardrobe' Xingyun Shen

Session 6: Fashion Spreads. Chaired by Dr Anne Peirson-Smith

‘Hong Kong Fashions’: Producing and Promoting Image, Style & Identity in the 1960s & 1970s' Dr Alice Beard

'Modest and Appropriate for Us: Fashion, Modernity, and Morality in Postcolonial Indonesia (1950-1965)' Rima Febriani

'An Archive of Poses: Decolonising Singapore’s Fashion History through Performing Models’ Images' Angelene Wong

Session 7: PHx Fashion Group. Chaired by Dr Nadya Wang

'Rethinking Philippine Fashion Creative Ecologies: Enabling Creativity and Commerce' Esme Palaganas, Joseph Bagasao III and Trickie Lopa

Session 8: Artists and Fashion. Chaired by Lim Sheau Yun

'Putting on the Dog: Wardrobe as Contemporary Art' Jakkai Siributr

Session 9: Fashion Photography and Film. Chaired by Sharrona Valezka

'Straddling the Personal and the Commercial' Jaya Khidir

'In Pursuit of Temples in the Sky' Gagandeep Singh

Closing remarks

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