Blithe Spirits: Absent British Women Couturiers - The Rahvis Sisters

这个基于实践的哲学硕士/博士项目旨在挖掘，调查和询问周围的成功和多产的女性设计师的缺席/存在二分法-拉维斯姐妹篇（Raemonde和多拉）。它关注的是拉维斯姐妹篇如何通过电影和新闻片，报纸和目录的媒介持久的幽灵般的存在，挑战英国文化的否认在战后英国时装的佳能成功的女性时装设计师的重要性。这将在一个女权主义的批评框架内，特别是当定位拉维斯是和不位于时尚史，是和不被假定，并做/不存在今天。在探索碎片，部分和Rahvis存在的残余物的同时，档案和艺术实践将被采用并讨论如何，何时何地我们可以发现它们。通过分析和解码这些作为挑衅形式的各种历史通信，可以在实践和理论中阅读和理解它们存在的差距和痕迹。这些阅读材料将激发这个项目的实践部分，从而收集报纸和杂志上对拉维斯服装的零碎描述（Trove.nla），一个派别中篇小说构建从发现残余的拉维斯'传记在报纸和采访（Trove.nla，Pathé 1958）和一个特定地点的沉浸式表演，以一个疑问的时装秀的形式，从新闻片中留给我们的环境残留物中汲取（Pathé，1958年）。因此，档案方法（Pathé 1958，Trove.nla，British Phone Books 1929 - 1981，et al）将与这种基于实践的跨学科方法携手合作，并应用和承认叙事，历史和记忆的哲学方法。

This Practice based MPhil/PhD project intends to unearth, investigate and interrogate the absence/presence dichotomy surrounding the successful and prolific female designers - The Rahvis Sisters (Raemonde and Dora). It is concerned with how the Rahvis sisters' enduring ghostly presence via the medium of film and newsreel, newspapers and directories, challenges British culture's disavowal of the importance of accomplished women couturiers within the canon of Post War British Couture. This will be framed within a Feminist critique, particularly when locating where the Rahvis are and are not situated within Fashion History, are and are not posited, and do/do not exist today. Whilst engaging in an exploration of the fragments, the partials and the remnants of the Rahvis' existence, Archival and Artistic practice will be employed and discussed with regards to how, when and where we may discover them. By analysing and decoding these various historical communications as a form of provocation, the gaps and traces of their existence may be read and understood both in practice and theory. These readings will motivate the practice-based part of this project resulting in a collection of designs borne of the fragmentary descriptions of Rahvis' garments in newspapers and magazines (Trove.nla), a Faction novella constructed from found remnants of the Rahvis' biography in newspapers and interviews (Trove.nla, Pathé 1958) and a site-specific immersive performance, in the form of an interrogative fashion show, drawn from the residues of environments left to us in newsreels (Pathé, 1958). An Archival method (Pathé 1958, Trove.nla, British Phone Books 1929 - 1981, et al), will therefore work hand in hand with this practice-based, interdisciplinary methodology, with philosophical approaches to narrative, history and memory being applied and acknowledged.