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A visit to the Fashion Museum, Bath
A highlight of this summer holiday was a visit to the Fashion Museum in Bath, a museum small in size but with a grand scope and a substantial collection of female costume dating back to the 17th...
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Press clippings from the fashion week
A belated note on the press coverage of Copenhagen Fashion Week and some good points from Eva Kruse, director of Danish Fashion. As per ususal, and in keeping with the intentions of the CFW to be not...
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Probe returns
Rock on \\m// (> . <) \\m// ! Listening to Metallica’s Enter Sandman – one of the tracks on the fashion exhibition mixtapes I asked my informants to make as part of the cultural probes, which...
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KULTURKIK fashion special
A new issue of KULTURKIK, a free, quaterly magazine about museum experiences, has just been released. The magazine is aimed at the general public – an elaborate advert for cultural heritage...
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Move over mobile, here comes Glass?
New York Fashion Week, just ended, saw a merge of fashion and technology with models sporting Google Glass eyewear on the runway for Diane von Furstenberg. The #DVFthroughGlass project/stunt caught the...
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New York diary, day three – fashion moments
(Psst… you can add pizzazz to this post with a fashion mix playlist from SHOWstudio. Go on.) Not even in New York are the streets swarming with Anna dello Russos or Daphne Guinesses. Not as much as a...
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Fashion history exhibited
In my first week at the BGC, I was hoarding a huge pile of articles from online resources such as the journal Fashion Theory (which had a couple of special issues on fashion curating back in 2008) and...
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Obsessing about shoes
Thursday I attended a public lecture by Valerie Steele at 92Y in relation the current exhibition Shoe Obsession at the Museum at FIT. As mentioned in an earlier post, I found the exhibit itself to be...
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Museum metamorphosis à la mode
A revised version of the paper I presented at the Museum Metamorphosis conference in Leicester last year, has now been published in the latest issue of Museological Review. Abstract: Museums are...
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#happypostanykindofmuseumstuffday!
So, over on Twitter, apparently it’s #NationalHandbagDay. Which calls for a celebration, thinks Europeana Fashion. @EurFashion tweet 1:00 PM – 10 Oct 2014 Me, I’m not so sure. OK, so it’s an excuse to...
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Looking good
Savage Beauty On Friday, I went on a pilgrimage, no less. To see Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the V&A in London. The exhibition was originally shown at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in...
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