Artist Info
Cally Blackman
Born Rangoon Burma
Education
1971-2 pre-Diploma Ravensbourne College of Art specializing in Fashion Design
1972-5 BA Hons (2.1) Fashion Design St. Martin’s School of Art London
1974 Bursary awarded by Royal Society of Arts for knitted coat Womenswear
1975-6 Designer of women’s wear at ‘Jake’ London
1977-85 Freelance knitwear designer, supplying high end pieces mainly in USA to private clients including Barbara Streisand and Lauren Bacall and shops including Bendels, Giorgio, Betsey Bunky Nimi and Lou Lattimore.
1993-5 Postgraduate Diploma History of Art Goldsmith’s University London
1995-7 MA History of Art (Dress) Courtauld Institute, London
publications
2012: 100 Years of Fashion, Laurence King
2009: 100 Years of Menswear, Laurence King
2007: 100 Years of Fashion Illustration CSM & Laurence King
2006: Consultant on Corsets and Underwear, Usborne
2005: Clothing the Cosmic Counterculture in The Summer of Love -Tate Liverpool/Liverpool University Press
2005: Consultant on The Fabulous Story of Fashion, Usborne
2003: The Pitkin Guide to Costume
2001: Walking Amazons: The Development of the Riding Habit in Britain during the Eighteenth century. Costume Journal.
May 2001: Shortened version of above for Country Life.
1999: 20th Century Fashion: Flappers and Stars,1920-39, David West Chil-dren’s Books.
1999: Handknitting in Britain from 1909-1939, with special reference to the work of Marjory Tillotson. Textile History Journal.
1998: Consultant for What We Wear. Watts publishing.
teaching
2001 to present: Fashion History & Theory BA pathway CSM. Subjects in-clude: Dress in the Renaissance: Flemish/Dutch, German, Spanish and French and Chronological surveys of : C18th and C19th dress.
Sept. 2006-March 2007 Acting Pathway Tutor BA Fashion History & Theory CSM.
2010- present: MA History & Culture of Fashion LCF
2008-present: MA Contemporary Design Sothebys Institute
2008-2009: Fashion Design BA University of Westminster
2007-10: Criticism Communication Curation BA CSM.