contessanally: Treviso Day Three: Modesign/Fashion at IUAV 2014 – Auditorium, Santa Caterina Museum – Misa Symposium - Fashion in Libraries: Collecting Materials and Documenting Stories.

Treviso Day Three: Modesign/Fashion at IUAV 2014 – Auditorium, Santa Caterina Museum – Misa Symposium - Fashion in Libraries: Collecting Materials and Documenting Stories. For the first time in Italy, the symposium, Fashion in Libraries: Collecting Materials and Documenting Stories, promoted and organized by MISA Associazione Italiana degli Studi di Moda (Italian Association for Fashion Studies), dealt with the issue of fashion libraries. The symposium brought together librarians, academics and historians with the aim to share ideas, encourage interdisciplinary discussion and promote collaborative research.

Above: Front row - left to right: Bruna Niccoli, Diana Barbetta, Bonizza Giordani Aragno, Alessandra Vaccari Paola Colaiacomo and Mario Lupano.

Second row: Anna Tonicello, Alessandra Citti, Federica Fornaciari, Laura Lusuardi, Deanna Ferretti Veroni, Chiara Squarcina and Daniela Degl'Innocenti.

Back row: Nicoletta Melito, Dieter Suls, Adelheid Rasche and Manuel Blanco.

Fashion in Libraries: Collecting Materials and Documenting Stories. The welcome note by Maria Luisa Frisa, president of MISA, director of the degree program in Fashion Design at the Università Iuav di Venezia. The first panel discussion focused on the theme, Fashion Libraries: best practice in the context of fashion museums, academic institutions and the fashion Industry. It included keynotes by Dieter Suls, scientific librarian, MoMu Fashion Museum Antwerp; Adelheid Rasche, curator of Lipperheide Costume, Art Library, State Museums Berlin; Gloria Bianchino, lecturer and senior researcher, CSAC Parma University; Laura Lusuardi, fashion coordinator, Max Mara Group and Federica Fornaciari, curator of BAI Max Mara Company Archive and Library.

Fashion in Libraries: Collecting Materials and Documenting Stories. Dieter Suls, scientific librarian, MoMu Fashion Museum Antwerp; Alessandra Vaccari, associate professor at IUAV and symposium program chair, Adelheid Rasche, curator of Lipperheide Costume, Art Library, State Museums Berlin; Laura Lusuardi, fashion coordinator, Max Mara Group and Federica Fornaciari, curator of BAI Max Mara Company Archive and Library.

Adelheid Rasche and Dieter Suls

The Book. The cover of the book Haute Couture in Paris 1960-1968, published by the National Museums in Berlin with illustrations by Trude Rein, her illustrations were provided by the Lipperheide Costume Library, which hosts the world’s largest collection of graphic works on the history of clothing and fashion. The library’s curator, Adelheid Rasche, above, also contributed to the book.

Anna Tonicello, University Library System, IUAV University of Venice and Gloria Bianchino, lecturer and senior researcher, Parma University

Deanna Ferretti Veroni, Maria Luisa Frisa and Laura Lusuardi

Santa Caterina Museum - the back of a mounted fresco in the nave of the church

Round Table: Addressing the Iconauts. The second round-table, was moderated by Mario Lupano, full professor and library representative, IUAV University of Venice. It focused on the peculiarities of fashion libraries with respect to the materiality and immateriality of the publishing industry, on the one hand, and a new type of end user, on the other.

Above. Daniela Degl'Innocenti, Prato Textile Library Museum, Chiara Squarcina, Palazzo Mocenigo Library, Study Center for the History of Textiles and Costume, Venice, Mario Lupano and Alessandra Citi, library director, Central Library, Rimini Campus, University of Bologna.

Members of the Round Table: Federica Centulani, Elisabetta Borino, Alessandra Fiora, Anna Tonicello, Daniela Degl'Innocenti and Chiara Squarcina.