Convenor:
Robert Radford, University of Southampton, Division of Art and Design History, Park Avenue, Winchester SO23 8DL. Tel 01962.842500. rr1@soton.ac.uk.  

In the light of current interest in the proximities, confluences and analogies - as well as the discrepancies and ruptures - observable within the fields of art and of fashion, this strand will explore further the potentialities of this topic. The concept 'fashon' is to be taken both in its inclusive sense, as the cultural desire for the new, but in the more specific sense of dress and personal appearance. Contributions will offer approaches from within a wide scope of disciplines and theoretical positions which might include the history of taste, consumption, representation or gender theory, material culture or social or institutional history, question of periodisation and style.

• Robert Radford (University of Southampton) Boundaries and Border Raids: Configuring the Shared and Territories of Art and Fashion
• Malcolm Barnard (University of Derby) The Anxiety of Ambivalence
• Ed Lilley (University of Bristol) 'The satin corset is perhaps the nude of our time': Thinking about (Un)dressing the Body in 19th-century France.
• Leslie E. Top (Oxford University) Men's Clothing, the Warenhaus and the Goldman & Salsch Building by Adolph Loos
• Alicia Foster (Independent scholar) Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman
• Susan Athanassiou (Falmouth College of Art) Fashioning Artistic Identity: Matisse's Femme au Chapeau
• Amy Sargeant (University of Plymouth) Yamamoto and Wenders: a Notebook on Cities and Clothes
• Margaret Maynard (University of Queensland): 'Grassroots Style': Aboriginal Art and European Fashion Design of the 1970s-1980s
• Paul Jobling (Kingston University) Fashion Figures: Intertextual Masculine Identities in Fashion Photography During the 1990s
• Randal Rhodes (University of Frostburg, Maryland) Fashioning, Wrapping and Shrouding the Dandiacal Body