LIVEFRIDAY: DRESS UP
30 AUG 2013 - HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NIGHT
30 AUG 2013 - ACTIVITIES WE ENJOYED ON THE NIGHT

In association with Oxford Fashion Week
Friday 30th August 2013, 7.00 – 10.30pm
We invited visitors to put on their finery and explore summer chic through the ages. Receiving a passport on arrival, visitors set off around the world in style on an alluring voyage through the museum featuring live photo shoots, runway shows, express fashion sketching and more.
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Dress-Up Piney Gir lock-in gig
Kansas born, London-based art school graduate and sassy, indie pop scenester Piney Gir stroke a pose as part of the Dress Up LiveFriday brining her summery style and sunny disposition to the stage in Ashmolean’s vaulted café.
MUSIC
- OCM Fashion-Infused Soundscape
- Echo Boomer
- The Busketeers
- The April Maze
ABOUT THE NIGHT
Dress-Up LiveFriday was organised in association with Oxford Fashion Week and co-curated by Cultural Events Coordination & Communication Consultant, Sarah Mayhew Craddock, and Director of Oxford Fashion Week Carl Anglim. www.oxfordfashionweek.co.uk
WORKSHOPS:
- Live Fashion Sketching with Dee Andrews
- Fashion Design Inspired by East and West with the Oxford Asian Textile Group
ACTIVITIES:
- Vogue! Concept Fashion Designs
- Phoenix Magazine Fashion Shoot
- Clare Farrell from TRAID transforms fabrics and old garments into new garments
- Get a Head, Get a Hat with Louise Pocock
- Advice & Aspiration: Getting Dressed with Women’s Magazines by Rae Ritchie
- Window Installation by Exclusive Roots and Indigo
- Mannequins, photography by Rory Carnegie
- Clothes and Textiles recycling with Bag It Up
- The Peace Tent by Textiles for All
- A Shirty Pair of Knickers by Maria Skoyles of Make Do Mend
- The Goddess Dress – Classical Style and the Bias Cut by Julia Mallaby
- Pinworks present the No–Sew Drape Dress
- A display of classic tailoring from Clements & Church
- A display of sartorial elegance Pimpernel Clothing
- Fashion Portfolios from Oxford and Cherwell Valley College
- Accessorise with Shop at the Old Fire Station
- Catwalk Show
TALKS:
- Ethical Fashion Symposium
- The Ultimate in Fashion and Luxury – The Kashmir Shawl in the Nineteenth Century by Sue Stanton
- Democracy and Dancing: Dressing Up in the Twentieth Century by Rae Ritchie
- Best Dressed – presented by fashion bloggers
- Smocks and Drawers presented by Barbara Allison
- What’s Hot? Presented by fashion bloggers