Inspired by our desire to share our ideas about fashion and dress with as wide an audience as possible, Documenting Fashion: A Dress History Blog brings together essays and comment from current History of Dress staff and students from The Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

We want to create a space to discuss the rich and varied dress-related activities and resources – and fashions – within The Courtauld itself, as well as commenting on fashions in the wider world.

We will also give snapshots of our work in progress, interview people about their attitudes to fashion and dress, and share an art historical, interdisciplinary perspective on what dress means and how it can be thought and written about now.