In 2023 the Hellenic Costume Society completes twenty years of activity in the field of the study of costume. To celebrate this important anniversary, it is organizing the fifth conference in its history on the theme “COSTUME: Research – Museum – Theatre”, dedicated to its founder, Ioanna Papantoniou, its first president for 16 consecutive years, who is also a set designer, costume expert and president of the Basil Papantoniou Foundation, in recognition of her tireless work and her contribution to the research, study and promotion of costume as a part of our culture in historical and contemporary times.

The Conference will take place at the amphitheatre of the Benaki Museum, 138 Pireos St., Piraeus, on the 8-10th of December 2023.

More information and registration on the conference website here.