Notes on ContributorsviiiChristopher Breward is Reader in Historical and Cultural Studies at the
London College of Fashion, the London Institute. He is the author of The
Culture of Fashion and The Hidden Consumer (both Manchester University
Press) and joint editor of Material Memories (Berg). He sits on the editorial
board of the journal Fashion Theory and has published several articles and
chapters on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fashion in its cultural context.
His current research focuses on the role played by fashionable clothing in
the history and culture of London.
Stephen Gundle is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Italian at
Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Between
Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass
Culture, 1943–91 (Duke University Press, 2000) and of many articles on
Italian history, politics and popular culture. He is currently completing studies
of glamour and of feminine beauty and national identity in Italy.
Réika C.V. Buckley is completing a PhD at Royal Holloway, University of
London on female film stars and popular culture in post-war Italy.
Amy de la Haye is a Senior Research Fellow at the London College of Fashion,
Creative Consultant to Shirin Guild and Consultant for the forthcoming
‘Fashion and Style’ gallery at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. From 1991
to 1998 she was Curator of Twentieth Century Dress at the Victoria & Albert
Museum. Published works includes Fashion Source Book (MacDonald 1989);
Chanel: the couturier at work (1994); Surfers, Soulies, Skinheads and Skaters
(1996);The Cutting Edge: 50 Years of British Fashion V&A Publications
(1997). Recently published titles include (with Valerie Mendes) Concise
History of Twentieth Century Fashion (Thames & Hudson, World of Art
series, 1999); (with Elizabeth Wilson) Defining Dress: Dress as Object,
Meaning and Identity (Manchester University Press, 1999).
Luigi Maramotti is Vice-Chairman and CEO of MaxMara Fashion Group.
With an annual turnover in excess of £600m and over 1,000 stores worldwide,
MaxMara is one of the best known and successful names in fashion. Luigi
Maramotti has a specialist interest in the promotion of fashion as an academic
subject, has provided funding for the enhancement of the contextual studies
element of the fashion course at Kingston University, has initiated the
sponsorship of research degrees including Nicola White’s, the MaxMara
lecture series, and an annual award of outstanding third-year dissertations.
Luigi Maramotti, who holds a degree in Business Administration from the