The work achieved throughout the project can be divided intro three main types of output: participation in conferences, publications, and participation to outreach events. The work carried out was planned in such a way that each activity served to help in supporting another with the presentation of paper in conferences helping develop ideas to submit publications that, in turn, helped deepen thoughts for dissemination in outreach activities. As such, work performed included the participation to 4 conferences: the Business History Conference (13 March 2021), the 2nd World Congress of Business History (9 September 2021), the 48th Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History (28 October 2021) and the 89th ACFAS Congress (2-13 May 2022). In addition, as part of FASHION IN IR, an online international workshop was organized on 2-3 December 2021 to discuss fashion and diplomacy from a transdisciplinary perspective with Valerie Steele (New York Fashion Institute of Technology) and Andreas Behnke (University of Reading) being the two keynote speakers for the event. This workshop also served as a springboard for a book chapter titled “Fashion and Diplomacy” that was co-authored with Madeleine Goubau (Université du Québec à Montréal) to be published in 2023 in the collective volume The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present that is being co-edited with Véronique Pouillard (University of Oslo). Beyond this book chapter, work was carried out on three other publications in business history and diplomatic history. An article was published on 3 December 2021 by Enterprise & Society titled “Fashion, Industry and Diplomacy: Reframing Couture–Textiles Relations in France, 1950s–1960s”. Another article to be published later this year by International Relations is titled “Fashion’s Diplomatic Role: An Instrument of French Prestige-Based Commercial Diplomacy 1960s–1970s”. Finally, a last article will be published later this year in Histoire, Europe et Relations internationals titled “Mode et diplomatie française: le role et l’influence de la haute couture dans les expositions tournantes et les Imports Fairs aux États-Unis, 1948-1951”. The third set of work that was done throughout the period was the participation to outreach event starting on 17 February 2021 with an online interview as part of McCord Museum’s exhibition on Christian Dior. This was followed by the participation to an open seminar organized by the ERC Consolidator project CREATIVE IPR on 10 May 2021 and the organization of a roundtable to discuss the differing perspectives in the study of fashion between three EU-funded projects (CREATIVE IPR, MISS, and FASHION IN IR) that took place in Oslo’s Litteraturhuset on 17 February 2022. Finally, the project’s results were also discussed and disseminated through two podcast interviews on 26 November and 20 December 2021 respectively on the New Diplomatic History Podcast and the “Qu’est-ce que la mode?” Podcast.
