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Public program

The collection is animated by various educational, editorial or curatorial activities which essentially makes the Library come to life. Here in chronological order.

2025

10.9.25–10.9.25Slow Fashion Book Club meeting #8

27.8.25–27.8.25Book launch: Stains and Ashes

19.8.25–19.8.25Book launch: Echoes of Her

18.6.25–18.6.25Guest Salons #16: Fredrik Floen on Rei Kawakubo II

14.5.25–14.5.25Slow Fashion Book Club meeting #7

07.5.25–03.10.25Something for Everyone, Everything for No One

09.4.25–09.4.25Slow Fashion Book Club meeting #6

05.4.25–31.8.25Fashion Flashbacks

22.3.25–23.3.24Fashion Printed Matter(s) fashion & art book fair

21.3.25–21.3.25Fashion Research Symposium 2025 'Creating Afterlives'

12.3.25–12.3.25Slow Fashion Book Club meeting #5

12.3.25–12.3.25Guest Salons #15: A Walk Through with Henrik Vibskov

04.3.25–04.3.25Guest Salons #14: Ann-Sofie Back and Anders Edström on their Collaborative Creation of Image(s)

20.2.25–02.5.25Ann-Sofie Back and the Image(s)

18.2.25–18.2.25In the Light of Harriet Backer: artist talk & film screening

12.2.25–12.2.25Slow Fashion Book Club meeting #4

11.2.25–11.2.25Carton d’invitation (2023) film screening

04.2.25–07.1.25Guest Salons: #12: PS Magasin – A Post Scriptum of the Era of Independent Fashion Journals?

24.1.25–24.1.25Official visit from HKH Crown Princess Mette-Marit

22.1.25–22.1.25ALPHA Talks: Norwegian Fashion

15.1.25–15.1.25Slow Fashion Book Club meeting #3

14.1.25–14.1.25Guest Salons #13: Velkommen tilbake, Jonas Ersland!

08.1.25–08.1.25ANTIFASHION (2012) film screening

2024

11.12.24–11.12.24Slow Fashion Book Club meeting #2

10.12.24–10.12.24Guest Salons #11: Metamodernism

26.11.24–26.11.24Guest Salons #10: Alternative Shows in Fashion and the Symbiosis Between Architecture, Design, Choreography and Fashion

23.11.24–23.11.24Den brente jords poesi – en dag med Jørn H. Sværens arbeider

13.11.24–13.11.24Slow Fashion Book Club meeting #1

09.11.24–09.11.24Guest Salons #9: Conversing Off the Cuff

19.10.24–19.10.24Catalogue launch: Ephemeral Matters. Into The Fashion Archive

18.10.24–15.1.25No Junk Mail: Fashion in the Post

18.10.24–23.3.25Ephemeral Matters. Into the Fashion Archive

09.10.24–09.10.24Slow Fashion Book Club info meeting

01.10.24–01.4.25Nordic Fashion, Printed Culture and Heritage Making researcher-in-residence

19.6.24–19.6.24Boklansering: Hestedagboken av Vibeke Tandberg

13.6.24–13.6.24LAUNCH: Viscose Journal no. 6 "TEXT"

13.6.24–01.10.24Writing Clothes: An Exhibition of Fashion Text

29.5.24–29.5.24UKS 'Commune': Archive Conversation & Display

26.5.24–01.7.24OPEN CALL: Nordic Fashion, Printed Culture and Heritage Making

22.5.24–22.5.24Guest Salons #8: Special Collection with Craig Mathis (Printed Matter Inc.)

18.4.24–19.5.24Dissecting the Archive

28.3.24–29.3.24Printing Fashion 2024

26.3.24–31.5.24The Italian Foot-In-Print. Traces of Italian Fashion Printed Matter

12.3.24–12.3.24Guest Salons #7: Banal Objects with Ben Ganz

05.3.24–05.3.24Guest Salons #6: Typedesign Runway SS24 with Dinamo

24.1.24–24.1.24Guest Salons #5: Merde Magazine

2023

31.10.23–31.1.24GAME OVER! Fashion & Play

24.10.23–24.10.23Guest Salons #4: Fashion Stylists — History, Meaning & Practice

21.9.23–21.9.23Fashion Research Symposium 2023 'Designing Beyond Human'

08.9.23–08.9.23Guest Salons #3: URO

04.7.23–04.7.23Guest Salons #2: Fashion Printed Matter and the Artist's Book

20.6.23–20.6.23Guest Salons #1: Putting the Whore Back in Hoarding

09.6.23–09.6.23Book launch with Per Spook

29.3.23–20.8.23Paper Afore Press

29.3.23–30.3.23Printing Fashion 2023

12.1.23–12.1.23Oslo Launch "The Provence Proust Questionnaire"

2022

01.12.22–01.3.23For Immediate Release: The Art of the Press Release

29.11.22–30.11.22Official opening

02.9.22–03.9.22Fashion Research Symposium 2022 'Decentralizing Fashion'

12.7.22–01.9.22Queering Fashion at Printed Matter

17.6.22–17.6.22Queering Room at Polestar Space Oslo

Official opening

Tuesday, November 29, 2022 – 11:00–Wednesday, November 30, 2022 – 17:00

International Library of Fashion Research is officially opening, and we're celebrating with a two-day opening programme with talks and activities.