Kerry Taylor is the director and founder of Kerry Taylor Auctions Limited, one of the world’s leading auction houses specializing in vintage and antique fashion, costume, and textiles, located in Bermondsey, London UK.
In 2013, Ms. Taylor was featured in the televised, “Princess Diana’s Dresses: The Auction”, and is the author of “Galliano” and “Vintage Fashion & Couture”.
Charlotte Smith is a fashion anthropologist, speaker and lecturer, and custodian of The Charlotte Smith Fashion Collection, formerly known as The Darnell Collection, which comprises over 9000 dresses and accessories spanning over 300 years of fashion history.
Ms. Smith has been featured in the popular television show, “Strange Inheritance”, and is the author of several books featuring her collection. These include Dreaming of Chanel, Dreaming of Dior, and One Enchanted Evening.
Charlotte Smith recently established the “UK Fashion History Tour” company, and sponsors the “Dress for Success Sidney Gala” every year. She currently makes her home in Sydney, Australia.
Edward Maeder is a costume and textile historian and has held curatorial positions at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California, and Historic Deerfield in Massachusetts. He was also the founding director of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto.
Mr. Maeder currently serves as curator and conservator of the Roddis Dress Collection, and has authored and co-authored several books, including his latest, American Style and Spirit: Fashions and Lives of the Roddis Family 1850-1995.
Dale Hope is the author of The Aloha Shirt – Spirit of the Islands.
Dale has just published a new edition to this wonderful book, click here to find it on Amazon .
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Longtime VFG member Jonathan Walford is the curator and founder of the Fashion History Museum located in Cambridge, Ontario Canada, and has published books with subjects ranging from shoes, to forties fashion, to 60s paper dresses and more. His latest is Fashioning Canada Since 1867 which is available for purchase via the museum website .
Several of his popular titles include Shoes A-Z, The Seductive Shoe, Forties Fashions, 1950s American Fashion, Sixties Fashion, and Ready to Tear: Paper Fashions of the 60s.
Mr. Walford has held curatorial positions with several institutions, including the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada, where he was the founding curator. He is currently the curatorial director of the Fashion History Museum in Cambridge, Ontario – an institution he founded with his partner Kenn Norman, in 2004.
Member Nicole Jenkins is a costume designer, vintage clothing aficionado, and owner of the highly respected vintage clothing store, Circa, in the heart of Melbourne’s vintage district in Gertrude Street, Fitzroy.
You can find Nicoles’s book Love Vintage and Style is Eternal directly from her website Circa Vintage Clothing. Style is Eternal is also available on Amazon.
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Claire Shaeffer is an independent researcher and internationally respected designer, author, educator, lecturer, and columnist. She frequently contributes articles to sewing magazines and has authored many books, including her latest publication, Couture Sewing: Making Designer Trims.
She is also the author of Couture Sewing Techniques, Couture Sewing: Tailoring Techniques, The Complete Book of Sewing Shortcuts, Claire Shaeffer’s Fabric Sewing Guide, among several other titles.
Ms. Shaeffer offers private workshops and instructions via her website Sewfari , and makes her home in Palm Springs, California.
VFG Member Jane Julianelli is a writer who was an editor at Women’s Wear Daily, has been a contributing writer to The New York Times and has freelanced for publications including The Daily News, Harper’s Bazaar, Mademoiselle, and Ms Magazine.
Jane’s book The Naked Shoe is available on Amazon
Susan Langley has lectured widely on historical fashion, curated six exhibits for the Lorenzo State Historic Site in New York, and hosted several live shows on Personal FX: The Collectibles Show. She resides in New York State. Sue has written several books on Vintage Fashion.
Click here to go to Susan’s Amazon page
