Cycle de conférences du GIS Sociabilités "Tisser du lien: femmes à la mode au siècle des Lumières"

Jeudi 18 juin 2026, 17h30-19h

Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences du GIS Sociabilités "Tisser du lien : femmes à la mode au siècle des Lumières"

Le Musée Cognacq-Jay et le GIS sur les sociabilités dans le long XVIIIe siècle (1650-1850) organisent un cycle de rencontres thématiques en lien avec l'exposition "Révéler le féminin. Mode et Apparences au XVIIIe siècle". Organisation scientifique : Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding (Université de Lille) et Valérie Capdeville (Université Rennes 2)

Lien vers le détail des événements :

https://gis-sociabilites.org/cycle-talks-tisser-du-lien-femmes-la-mode-au-siecle-des-lumieres.html

Serena Dyer (De Montfort University): « Dress of the Year: Marking Time, Fashion, and Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain » 

En présentiel - Gratuit, sur inscription. 

A distance - Lien Zoom : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81503205124?pwd=6bVFcWLka3nlndW1whl4HkOnHRwAAd.1

Résumé:

Between 1774 and 1807, Ann Frankland Lewis completed thirty-two of her ‘dress of the year’ watercolours, composed as full-length views of a fashionably dressed woman. Begun as an unmarried girl of seventeen and set aside as a widow and bereaved mother of fifty, these sartorial self-representations chronicle an enduring and dedicated relationship with fashion.  They depict lavish court dress, momentary crazes and longer-term trends, relaxed and informal dishabille, cosy fur cloaks and sombre mourning dress. Yet, behind the frills and feathers, muffs and bonnets, it is the creativity, artistic experimentation, engagement with commercialised fashion and print cultures and creative labour embodied by these images which is most striking. Far from a frivolous feminine pursuit to fill the hours of genteel leisure time or a giddy and distracting impediment to self-understanding, these images encapsulate an emotive, skilled and culturally engaged biographical narrative told through dress. 

Dr Serena Dyer is Associate Professor of Fashion History at De Montfort University. She is author of Material Lives (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Labour of the Stitch (Cambridge University Press, 2024), and is currently writing her next book, Georgian Fashion: Britishness and Dress in the Eighteenth Century, which is under contract with Yale University Press. She presents the Fashion Through History digital series for English Heritage.

Lieu :
Musée Cognacq-Jay
8, rue Elzévir
75003 PARIS
Salle de conférences

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