Fashion Media Conference: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

whilst this is a little late, i did want to comment on it... so i am. last month, the london college of fashion held a fashion media conference that brought together leading experts to discuss the key issues that are facing fashion media and communications today and consider them in relation to historical and future media cultures.

sounds like something i should have been in the audience for doesn't it?

unfortunately i found out about it all too late and was unable to get myself a ticket in time. gosh and darn it quite frankly.

put together by penny martin, editor of the gentlewoman, and dr. djurdja bartlett, of the lcf, it involved presentations papers from many influential academic figures in fashion including dr. agnes rocamora of the lcf, who is currently putting together the first comprehensive study of fashion blogging.

so it all sounded very interesting and i obviously got very excited about it all due to it's fashion media content but there are lots of things about it that niggle me.

when one googles about the fashion media conference there are, of course, lots of references that pop up but at no point will you find an official blog or website dedicated to the conference. this boggles my brain considering that this conference is meant to be about contemporary fashion media... you'd think that they at least set up a blog about it?!

also... one month on and there doesn't seem to be any videos or recordings taken from the conference that can be accessed online. why not? you'd think that they would want to get the conversation out there. what is happening in the world of fashion media?

finally... and this seems to be the most telling of the lot... despite the obviously brilliant presentations that were on show on the day, i can't help but feel the majority of presentation topics had very tenuous links to the actual discussion at hand.

overall the fashion media conference seemed to offer an academic point of view of their own personal research all gathered up and labelled as a discussion of contemporary fashion media in relation to historical and future media cultures even if their research possessed the most tenuous of links. maybe i'm wrong? perhaps someone that was there could correct me?

however, in my opinion, perhaps a london edition of the future of fashion blogging conference by the Independent Fashion Bloggers network would have been a lot more useful, accessible and relevant. here's hoping they come to london next time.