Projects
Symposium on Fashion + Politics: Fashion Praxis 2014
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Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. (ART): A Virtual Conversation with Fashion Archivists 2022
An Archive of Memories: Preserving Stories Through the Objects We Wear for A Virtual Conversation with Fashion Archivists
Cardiff University: Secondhand Cultures in Unsettled Times Symposium 2021
The "Archaeology of Fashion" Research Project: Unveiling New Secondhand Practices and Cultures from the Perspective of First-Generation Americans for the Secondhand Cultures in Unsettled Times Symposium 2021
Secondhand Cultures in Unsettled Times Symposium Day 1: Problematizing Secondhand Cultures 2021
“Go for Fantasy or Reflect Reality?”: A Playful Visual Liaison between the Clothed Body, Embodiment, and Film Characters in American Vogue for UN:RESOLVED 2021
UN:RESOLVED Symposium 2021
Association of Dress Historians (ADH) International Conference 2023: “Ad-Dressing Margins”: Historically Underrepresented Fashion and Style
"The Clothing We Wear, The Clothes We Keep: How First-Generation Americans Use Styling as Storytelling" for Association of Dress Historians (ADH) International Conference 2023
Black Girls in Archives (BGIA) presents its Tailored series to inspire and showcase individuals in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) sector and the BGIA community.
"Lived, Documented, Remembered: A Life in Archives" for Tailored, a series presented by Black Girls in Archives (BGIA) 2024
Nicole specializes in preserving personal stories and intergenerational anecdotes through worn garments. Her inquisitiveness centers on exploring the entanglements of archive collections, gender expressions, and women’s herstory across a sartorial framework referencing idiosyncratic ensembles as material (auto)biographies while engaging in active seminars to share her findings.
Her former intellectual interests concentrated on rewriting the narrative surrounding the value of “old clothes” where inquiries directed at the social life of fashion objects now challenge how we must think of history as not only dates, facts, and figures but of emotions and feelings. As guardians of information specially trained in safekeeping original material and a body of records, Nicole suggests that fashion archivists and historians should consider the lives of the wearers as it informs how these tactile artifacts were worn, styled, and exhibited to bring memory into collections research.
Symposiums/ Panels
Black Girls in Archives (BGIA) presents its Tailored series to inspire and showcase individuals in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) sector and the BGIA community. Each guest talks about their journey within their respective area of study to give insight and more information about their current work. (2024)
Association of Dress Historians (ADH) presents its autumn conference, “Ad-Dressing Margins”: Historically Underrepresented Fashion and Style, which focuses on centering historically marginalized communities, fashion, style, and dress in historic and modern contexts. The event included specialist theme workshops. (2023)
The Archivists Round Table (A.R.T.) presents A Virtual Conversation with Fashion Archivists, a discussion of current archival research and practices. (2022)
The En[…]Clothed Collective presents UN:RESOLVED, this inaugural event is a virtual immersive experience showcasing interdisciplinary, visual research bridging theory & practice centered on embodiment. (2021)
Secondhand Cultures in Unsettled Times, an interdisciplinary virtual symposium for the School of Journalism, Media & Culture at Cardiff University. (2021)
Fashion Praxis: A Symposium on Fashion and Politics, using Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958) as a conceptual framework, conversations between participating faculty members across the disciplines within the New School present their research, connect their work, and think through the potential of what “fashion praxis” and “praxis” more generally might mean across disciplines, fields, practices, and realities. (2014)
"Lived, Documented, Remembered: A Life in Archives" for Tailored, a series presented by Black Girls in Archives (BGIA) in 2024.
Presentations
Lived, Documented, Remembered: A Life in Archives
The Clothing We Wear, The Clothes We Keep: How First-Generation Americans Use Styling as Storytelling
An Archive of Memories: Preserving Stories Through the Objects We Wear
“Go for Fantasy or Reflect Reality?”: A Playful Visual Liaison between the Clothed Body, Embodiment, and Film Characters in American Vogue
The “Archaeology of Fashion” Research Project: Unveiling New Secondhand Practices and Cultures from the Perspective of First-Generation Americans
“Go for Fantasy or Reflect Reality?”: A Playful Visual Liaison between the Clothed Body, Embodiment, and Film Characters in American Vogue for UN:RESOLVED Symposium 2021 organized by The En[…]Clothed Collective.