Alexis is available to speak on a range of dress and design-related topics. Speaking engagements include:
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Sartorial Stories: Fashion, Autobiography and Staten Island, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island (November 2018)
Reframing the Gaze: Prêt-à-Porter and the Urban Fabric in 1960s French Fashion Magazines, Chelsea College of Arts, London (June 2017)
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Alexis Romano in Conversation with Dal Chodha of the Archivist Magazine, Courtauld Institute of Art, London (May 2017)
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Reframing the Fourth Republic: Modernization, National Image, and the Readymade Industry, Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC (April 2017)
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Constructing Paris and Prêt-à-Porter by the Fashion Media, Parsons School of Design, New York (February 2017)
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An Uncertain Utopia: Dress, Bodies and City Space in 1960s French Fashion Imagery, Somerset House, London (February 2016)
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Fashion, Movement and Image in 1960s France, Bowes Museum, Durham (October 2015)
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Shaping Prêt-à-Porter in the Fourth Republic, 1946-58: The Paris/New York Dialogue, Anglo-American Conference of Historians, London (July 2015)
Interpreting memory and image: women, spaces and dress in 1960s France, Courtauld Institute of Art, London (May 2015)
Prêt-à-porter and Ambiguous Urban Bodies and Spaces in French Magazines, 1961-1966, Centre for Fashion Studies, Stockholm (May 2015)
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Researching French Ready-to-wear, 1947-57: Industry, Modernity, and the Image of Women, Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent, Paris (April 2014)
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Stylisme, Optical Art Surfaces, and Ready-Made Clothing Production in 1960s France, Courtauld Institute of Art, London (March 2014)
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Negotiating Modernity in 1950s French Elle: Prêt-à-porter, Quotidian Space and the Image of Women, Courtauld Institute of Art, London (November 2013)
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Prêt-à-porter, Paris, et l’Image des Femmes à travers la Presse de Mode, 1950-1965, Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent, Paris (April 2013)
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Beyond Paris: Prêt-à-porter and the Image of Women in Elle, 1956-1967, Royal College of Art, London (September 2012)
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Revolution or Evolution? Emmanuelle Khanh’s Ready-to-Wear Creations in 1960s Paris, Costume Society of America, Boston (June 2011)
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Yohji Yamamoto and the Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (May 2011)
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Fashion for Every Woman: Elle and the Development of Stylisme in 1960s Paris, Costume Society, Leeds (July 2010)
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Emmanuelle Khanh et le Développement du Stylisme dans les années 1960, Séminaire Histoire de la Mode, Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent, Paris (June 2010)
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What’s in a Narrative? Interpreting Yohji Yamamoto in the Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford (September 2009)