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Natalie Nudell is a fashion and textile historian with a focus on the American fashion industry and the Fashion Calendar. She is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the History of Art Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, is Co-Principal Investigator of "Ruth Finley Collection: Digitizing 70 Years of the Fashion Calendar," and wrote and produced the feature documentary "Calendar Girl" (2020).
Introduction Introduction to the Fashion Calendar and Ruth Finley
Methodological and theoretical approach Chapter descriptions 1. Starting up
the Fashion Calendar Avoiding conflicts to structuring the system The
establishment of the Fashion Calendar and the women behind it Tactics used
to establish authority and realities of women-owned business in the early
20th Century Trade journals, capitalist commercial structures, time-systems
and the formation of the fashion community in New York 2. Diplomacy,
Philanthropy & Fashion The conjunction of PR, politics and fashion in the
20th Century The establishment of the fashion community in the United
States and its key influences Interconnections of the fashion, popular
culture, PR and political communities The use of fashion shows, events and
culture for charitable, political or diplomatic ends 3. Networks of Power
Press Week to New York Fashion Week Discussion of fashion shows and
presentations and their relation to industrial cycles and in relation to
the fashion time system and commercial culture The entrenchment of the
fashion system in New York and the ascendancy of American fashion design in
the 1970s The establishment of NYFW, the institutionalization of the
Fashion Calendar as the official Calendar of New York Fashion Week 4.
Institutionalization of the Fashion Calendar and the End of the Independent
Arbiter of the NYFW Schedule Discussion of the disjointed nature of
American fashion institutions and how they overlap i.e. CFDA, IMG The
transition of Fashion Calendar to the official calendar of NYFW and how
Finley maintained her independence The sale of the Fashion Calendar to CFDA
and the end of open accessibility of the American fashion schedule Changes
implemented by the CFDA, the numerous transitions that followed the
acquisition, the new American Designer Collections Calendar and how it
impacts American fashion and NYFW 5. Digitizing the Ruth Finley Collection
Digital Humanities, AI & Critical Cataloging Description of the project its
goals and audience Description and discussion of the development of the
project, challenges faced Innovative technologies used, such as AI
modelling and Machine learning Our use of "critical cataloguing" to inform
how we approach metadata creation and diversity and inclusion Conclusion
Summary of the theoretical and methodological approach Call to action for
researchers, scholars and the public to use the Fashion Calendar Research
Database for their own research or to learn about archives and digital
humanities Bibliography Index
