CONGRESS: RE-SOURCE, FASHION HERITAGE IN THE DIGITAL AGE

The (digital) availability of vast quantities of fashion heritage (dress collections, archives of designers, textile archives) is drastically changing fashion research today. What counts are not only qualitative but also qualitative elements,
as well as relatively unknown archival items such as patterns, invitations, look books and digital conversions. What does this mean for designers as makers and intellectual owners of their creations? What kinds of new possibilities does the new scenario present? And what new tools are available to people doing classic fashion research?