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DESCRIPTION:Anne Kraatz will be giving a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on\nT
 hursday\, November 6\, 2014\, from 12 to 1:30pm.  Her talk is entitled\n“F
 ashion and Philosophy\, or the Influence of a System of Thought on a Syste
 m of\nDress at the End of the 15th Century.”\n\nAnne Kraatz received her M
 .A. From the École des hautes\nétudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Pari
 s and her Ph.D. with honors from the\nÉcole pratique des hautes études (EP
 HE)\, section des sciences historiques et\nphilologiques\, at the Sorbonne
  University in Paris. She has written extensively\non the history of texti
 les\, on French and Italian material culture of the 17th\nand 18th centuri
 es\, on the history of trade\, particularly between France and\nRussia\, a
 nd on the relationship between fashion and philosophy\, the subject of\nhe
 r Ph.D. Thesis. Her books\, some of which have been translated into severa
 l\nlanguages\, including Japanese\, include: Mode et philosophie: ou le\nn
 éoplatonisme en silhouette\, 1470-1500 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres\,\n2005)
 \, Le commerce franco-russe: Concurrence & contrefaçons\, De\nColbert à 19
 00 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres\, 2006)\, and Luxe et luxure\nà la cour des 
 papes de la Renaissance (Paris: Les Belles Lettres\, 2010).\nHer two books
  on the history of lace and of velvet\, long out of print\, are\nbeing rei
 ssued. She has curated several exhibits including “Lace in Fashion” at\nth
 e Palais Galliera\, Museum of Fashion. Her most recent lecture was given a
 t\nthe Institut Français de la Mode in Paris. In 1994\, she was invited to
  join the\nBard Graduate Center for a semester as an adjunct professor. Sh
 e has lectured\nextensively in most European countries\, in the US\, most 
 notably at the Getty\nMuseum\, and in Japan on a variety of topics\, usual
 ly involving the price\nstructure of luxury goods in the 17th and 18th cen
 turies. Kraatz will be a\nVisiting Fellow at the BGC in November 2014.How 
 is the fashion of a certain era determined? Is it the\nresult of a casual\
 , hazardous process or\, instead\, the frivolousness of some\nimposed on a
 ll others? Or is dress the accurate material reflection of a thought\nproc
 ess organically adopted by all at a certain point in time and in a certain
 \nplace? Kraatz will attempt to demonstrate that there is an intimate\nrel
 ationship between the fashion of a moment and the dominant thought of the
 \nsame moment. The geometrically oriented aesthetics of Neoplatonism\, the
 \ndominant philosophical school of the Renaissance\, makes the period the 
 ideal\none to study for that purpose\, in as much as its style of dress di
 ffered\nradically from that of the preceding one\, the so-called “Internat
 ional Gothic”\nera. Equally for both men and women\, the Neoplatonic silho
 uette is viewed\, in\nthis approach\, as a rectangular\, masculine-like th
 ough not virile\, figure\,\nclose to the angelic aspirations of the Floren
 tine theoreticians of\nNeoplatonism\, as opposed to the triangular\, femin
 ine-like though not\neffeminate\, figure\, representative of the courtly s
 exuality of the late Gothic.\nThe method used here should\, ideally\, enab
 le the analysis of other periods\,\nother forms of dress\, other places\, 
 through what is basically a\nphenomenological approach\, inspired and nurt
 ured by the study of material as\nwell as intellectual culture.\n\nCoffee 
 and tea will be served\; attendees are welcome to\nbring their own lunch.R
 SVP is required.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Fashion and Philosophy\, or the Influence of 
 a System of Thought on a System of Dress at the End of the 15th Century
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