Fashion Curating: Critical Practice in the Museum and Beyond
As the practice of fashion curation extends into commercial galleries, public and retail spaces, and even to the individual self, professional concepts of 'curating' are undergoing rapid change. Today, everyone is seemingly able to 'curate', but where does this leave the traditional understanding of curation as clothing collected and displayed in a museum? This thought-provoking volume explores the practice of fashion curating in the 21st century, bridging the gap between methods of display and notions of 'the curatorial' in fashion exhibitions, commercial settings, and the virtual world.

From fashion's earliest forays into the museum to creative collaborations between luxury fashion brands and artists, this book challenges understandings of fashion curation by drawing on the palpably new spaces, places, and actors in today's curating scene. Exploring poetic and performative museum displays in venues such as the V&A, Somerset House, MoMu and the Royal Ontario Museum, alongside the ways that brands such as Dior, Chanel and Louis Vuitton have made use of 'the curatorial' in their own commercial strategies, Fashion Curating asks pressing questions about controversial funding and collaboration from the commercial fashion sector, and the limitations of producing exhibitions that are at the same time critical and popular.

Bringing together approaches from fashion curators, designers and world-renowned academics, curation is positioned as a critical practice that opens up new ways of conceptualizing and theorizing fashion, challenging how we think and what we already know.
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Fashion Curating: Critical Practice in the Museum and Beyond
As the practice of fashion curation extends into commercial galleries, public and retail spaces, and even to the individual self, professional concepts of 'curating' are undergoing rapid change. Today, everyone is seemingly able to 'curate', but where does this leave the traditional understanding of curation as clothing collected and displayed in a museum? This thought-provoking volume explores the practice of fashion curating in the 21st century, bridging the gap between methods of display and notions of 'the curatorial' in fashion exhibitions, commercial settings, and the virtual world.

From fashion's earliest forays into the museum to creative collaborations between luxury fashion brands and artists, this book challenges understandings of fashion curation by drawing on the palpably new spaces, places, and actors in today's curating scene. Exploring poetic and performative museum displays in venues such as the V&A, Somerset House, MoMu and the Royal Ontario Museum, alongside the ways that brands such as Dior, Chanel and Louis Vuitton have made use of 'the curatorial' in their own commercial strategies, Fashion Curating asks pressing questions about controversial funding and collaboration from the commercial fashion sector, and the limitations of producing exhibitions that are at the same time critical and popular.

Bringing together approaches from fashion curators, designers and world-renowned academics, curation is positioned as a critical practice that opens up new ways of conceptualizing and theorizing fashion, challenging how we think and what we already know.
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Fashion Curating: Critical Practice in the Museum and Beyond

Fashion Curating: Critical Practice in the Museum and Beyond

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As the practice of fashion curation extends into commercial galleries, public and retail spaces, and even to the individual self, professional concepts of 'curating' are undergoing rapid change. Today, everyone is seemingly able to 'curate', but where does this leave the traditional understanding of curation as clothing collected and displayed in a museum? This thought-provoking volume explores the practice of fashion curating in the 21st century, bridging the gap between methods of display and notions of 'the curatorial' in fashion exhibitions, commercial settings, and the virtual world.

From fashion's earliest forays into the museum to creative collaborations between luxury fashion brands and artists, this book challenges understandings of fashion curation by drawing on the palpably new spaces, places, and actors in today's curating scene. Exploring poetic and performative museum displays in venues such as the V&A, Somerset House, MoMu and the Royal Ontario Museum, alongside the ways that brands such as Dior, Chanel and Louis Vuitton have made use of 'the curatorial' in their own commercial strategies, Fashion Curating asks pressing questions about controversial funding and collaboration from the commercial fashion sector, and the limitations of producing exhibitions that are at the same time critical and popular.

Bringing together approaches from fashion curators, designers and world-renowned academics, curation is positioned as a critical practice that opens up new ways of conceptualizing and theorizing fashion, challenging how we think and what we already know.

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ISBN-13: 9781474287128
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 12/28/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 264
File size: 12 MB
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About the Author

Hazel Clark is Professor of Design Studies and Fashion Studies, and Research Chair of Fashion at Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, USA.

Annamari Vänskä is Professor of Fashion Research at the Aalto University, Finland, and Adjunct Professor of Art History and Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is also a Visiting Professor at Shanghai College of Fashion, Donghua University, China.
Annamari Vänskä is Professor of Fashion Research at the Aalto University in Finland. She is the author of Fashionable Childhood (Bloomsbury, 2017) and Understanding Fashion Scandals (Bloomsbury 2024) and the co-editor of Fashion Curating (Bloomsbury 2018). Vänskä's work spans fashion as embodied culture and digitalization of fashion. She is currently the Deputy-PI of the consortium “Intimacy in Data-Driven Culture” and PI of the research project “Intimacy, Creative Work and Design,” funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland (2019-2025).
Hazel Clark is Professor of Design Studies and Fashion Studies, and Research Chair of Fashion at Parsons School of Design, New York, USA. Her books include the co-edited Old Clothes, New Looks (Berg, 2005) and Design Studies: A Reader (Berg, 2009).

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Plates

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Annamari Vänskä, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, Finland and Hazel Clark, Parsons School of Design, New York, USA

I. Inside the Museum

Inside the Museum: Introduction

1. Confronting Fashion's Death Drive: Conservation, Ghost Labor, and the Material Turn within Fashion Curation.
Sarah Scaturro

2. Permanence and Impermanence: Curating Western Textiles&Fashion at the Royal Ontario Museum
Alexandra Palmer

3. Unfamiliar places, local voices: Four emerging curatorial narratives in Australia (2010-2016)
Robyn Healey

4. Fashion curation at MoMu: Digital challenges
Kaat Debo

II. The Independents

The Independents: Introduction

5. Props and Other Attributes: Fashion and Exhibition-making
Judith Clark

6. Staging Fashion in Somerset House, London
Alistair O'Neill

7. Boutique – Where Art and Fashion Meet. Curating as collaboration and as cultural critique
Annamari Vänskä

8. From Lesbian and Gay to Queer: Challenging the Hegemony in Collecting and Exhibiting LGBT Fashion and Dress
Shaun Cole

9. Intervening Fashion: A case for feminist approaches to fashion curation.
Nathalie Khan

III. Beyond the Museum

Beyond the Museum: Introduction

10. Fashion museums and fashion exhibitions in Italy. New perspectives in Italian fashion studies
Simona Segre Reinach

11. Beyond Garments: Reorienting the Practice and Discourse of Fashion Curating
Marco Pecorari

12. Fashion curates art: Takashi Murakami for Louis Vuitton
Peter Bengtsen

13. Artification and Authenticity: Museum Exhibitions of Luxury Fashion Brands in China
Yuli Bai
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