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The Business of Fashion, Italian Style: V&#38;A, LondonDate: February 7th, 2014 | Time: 10:45 — 16:00Venue: Research Department, V&#38;A, LondonThis workshop is for fashion studies post-graduate students and researchers who want to learn about curatorial and business-history approaches to the history of the fashion business, and vice versa (Research Department, V&#38;A).Featuring presentations from business historians, fashion historians and curators from the UK and Europe, this study day provides the opportunity to meet researchers who are working to connect fashion studies, economic history, and curatorial practice.  Speakers will include fashion curators and other researchers who have contributed to The Glamour of Italian Fashion, 1945-2014, the V&#38;A’s upcoming exhibition and catalogue on Italian fashion.Talks include:The history of Italian fashion companies (Emanuela Scarpellini, University of Milan)Incorporating business history into a fashion exhibition (Sonnet Stanfill, V&#38;A)The Italian knitwear industry (Elizabeth Currie, Fashion Researcher)The Sozzani sisters and Italy’s fashion industry (Oriole Cullen, V&#38;A)The Italian textile firm Nattier (Lucia Savi, V&#38;A)The Business History of the Fashion Industry since 1945 (Regina Lee Blaszczyk, University of Leeds)Lunch is provided and there will be a chance to see the Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s exhibitionThe Business History of Fashion, Italian Style  is open to fashion studies post-graduate students, researchers and final year undergraduates. The event is free but places are limited. To book, please email:enterpriseofculture@leeds.ac.uk or phone on +44(0)113 343 1910See here for further information, including programme details.