The Costume Textiles website is currently being redesigned.
Established to encourage international, interdisciplinary, and intercultural exchanges of information and ideas, Costume Textiles is dedicated to the study of fashion, textiles, styles, techniques, conservation, and the many issues associated with dress history, as well as contemporary costume creation, use, and design.
An international programme promoted by Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco®
The website was originally created to promote Costume Colloquium, an international programme promoted by Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco® – Life Beyond Tourism®. Inaugurated in Florence in 2008 with A Tribute to Janet Arnold, the biennial symposia have subsequently explored a wide range of themes, including:
- Dress for Dance (2010), Past Dress
- Future Fashion (2012)
- Colors in Fashion (2014)
- Restraint and Excess in Fashion and Dress (2016)
- Textiles in Fashion: Creativity in Context (2018)
- Fashion and Dress in Space and Place (2020)