Committee History

ICOM’s Costume Committee was established at the 6th General Conference in July 1962.

Chairs and secretaries
1962-1965
Chair: Mr F. Boucher (France), Directeur du Centre de documentation des arts du costume, Paris.
1966-1968
Chair: Mr F. Boucher (France), Délégué général de l’Union française des Arts du Costume, Paris; Secretary: Miss G. Ekstrand (Sweden)
1968-1970
Chair: Ms Anne Buck (UK), The Gallery of English Costume, Manchester; Secretary: Mll Yvonne Deslandres (France), Centre d’enseignement et de documentation du costum
1970-1974
Chair:  Ms Anne Buck (UK); Secretary:  Mary de Jong, Den Haag (Netherlands)
1974-1977
Chair: Dr. Jenny Schneider (Switzerland), Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zürich; Secretary:  Mary de Jong (Netherlands)
1977-1980
Chair: Dr Jenny Schneider; Secretary: Dr Leonie von Wilckens (Federal Republic of Germany), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg
1980-1983
Chair: Gudrun Ekstrand; Secretary: Leonie von Wilckens. Third member: Mrs Madeleine Ginsburg (UK), Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1986-1989
Chair: Ms Ingrid K. Bergman (Sweden), Curator, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm; Secretary: Ms Naomi Tarrant (UK), Curator of European Costume and Textiles, Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
1989-1992
Chair: Ms E. Anne Coleman (USA), Brooklyn Museum, NY; Secretary: Mrs Mariliina Perkko (Finland), Director, Espoo City Museum, Espoo
1992-95
Anne Coleman, Mariliina Perkko
1995-98
Mariliina Perkko, Joanna Marschner (UK), curator, Kensington Palace, London
1998-2001
Mariliina Perkko, Joanna Marschner
2001-04
Joanna Marschner, Katia Johansen (Denmark), conservator, Royal Danish Collections
2004-07
Joanna Marschner, Katia Johansen
2007-10-05
Katia Johansen, Vicki Berger (USA), Arizona Historical Society Museum, Tempe, Arizona

Annual meetings
(first gathering 1959)

3 and 6 July 1962, The Hague, The Netherlands.

22-24 and 28 September 1965, New York, United States of America.
Venue: Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lectures on museums of this category.
A working session on the problems of the conservation of costumes.

29 July-9 August 1968, Cologne, Munich, Federal Republic of Germany.
Theme: Museum and Research.

30 August- 2 September 1971, Paris, Grenoble, France.
Theme: The Museum in the Service of Man Today and Tomorrow

7 July 1973, Copenhagen, Denmark.

16-18 September 1975, Zurich, Switzerland.

10 April 1976, Norwich, United Kingdom.
Meeting of the Working Group on Catalogue Information and Terminology.

27-30 September 1976, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

18-28 May 1977, Leningrad, Moscow, Former USSR. General Conference
Theme: Museums and Cultural Exchange.

22-27 September 1978, Lisbon, Portugal.

18-21 September 1979, Nuremberg, Federal Republic of Germany.

25 October-4 November 1980, Mexico City, Mexico. General Conference
Theme: The World’s Heritage-The Museum’s Responsibility.

24-29 May 1982, Stockholm, Sweden.

23 July-2 August 1983, London, United Kingdom. General Conference

28-31 October 1986, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
General Conference of ICOM.

3-7 May 1987, New York, United States of America.
Theme: Costume Research.

14-19 March 1988, Milan, Florence, Italy.
Theme: Dress, a Mirror of Society; Care of Costume, an Important Mission.

August-September 1989, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Theme: New Forms of Presentation. General Conference of ICOM.

3-9 June 1990, Budapest, Hungary.
Theme: Fashion of the 19th Century.

13-20 October 1991, Madrid, Spain.
Theme: 20th Century Costume.

19-26 September 1992, Quebec, Canada. General Conference.
Theme: New Forms and New Themes.

11-17 July 1993, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Theme: Reinterpreting Costume Collections.

11-16 April 1994, Kyoto, Japan.
Theme: ”Japanisme”.

28 June-8 July 1995, Stavanger, Norway. General Conference
Theme: Museum and Communities – Aspects of Ethnic Dress.

29 September – 7 October 1996, Prague, Czech Republic, hosted by the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague.

1-11 June 1997, Paris, Lyons, France.
Theme: Costume: Reality, History and Fiction. Approach by Artists, Fashion Creators, Histoirans and Conservators.

12-14 October 1998, Melbourne, Australia. General Conference
Theme: Tradition, adaptation, interfertilisation.

6-12 September 1999, Athens, Nafplion, Greece.
Theme:

1-12 October 2000, Lisbon, Portugal.

2-4 July 2001, Barcelona, Spain. General Conference of ICOM.

6-12 October 2002, Oakland, California, USA
Theme: Many Costumes: Clothing Traditions Transplanted to and from California.

28 September-3 October 2003, Krakow, Poland.
Theme: Poland and Other Crossroads in Dress.

4-6 October 2004, Seoul, Republic of Korea. General Conference of ICOM.

13-17 June 2005, Berlin, Germany.
Venue: Deutsches Historisches Museum.
Theme: On Men…

8-13 October 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark and Lund, Sweden.
Venue: The Royal Danish Collections in Copenhagen and Kulturen in Lund.
Theme: Costume Decoration and Design.

20-22 August, 2007, Vienna, Austria.
Theme: Costume and heritage. 21st General Conference of ICOM.

6-10 October, 2008, Santiago, Chile.
Theme: Colonial Fashion.