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Fashion/Museum: May 2012
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Friday, May 25, 2012. I haven't written in over a year due to the time constraints of my jobs and teaching, but I recently had the honor of writing a guest post. On the American Association of Museum's Emerging Museum Professionals blog that was published today! It's about a particular textile pattern that I've been researching and am preparing to give a paper on at the Textile Society of America's "Textiles and Politics" conference this September in DC. You can find the post here. Posted by WAJ R.
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Fashion/Museum: February 2010
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Thursday, February 11, 2010. Katie Couric in Harper's Bazaar. I have finally returned from a far-too-long hiatus centered around a trip to Southeast Asia and the subsequent readjustment to normal life, which itself was interrupted by unprecedented snowstorms that have shut down the entire Washington area! Now, however, I'm back, and while my first intention is to write a post on the fabulous textiles I encountered in SE Asia, I've decided to begin instead with a brief post on an article by. There's nothi...
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Fashion/Museum: July 2009
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009. Space-Age Fashion, 40 Years Later. I have a particular fondness for space-age fashion after having written a paper on the Jetsons and space-age Fashion (which, incidentally, I'm presenting at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association in November). Appropriately enough, the Daily Beast's Fashion Beast site features a short article and a slideshow of s. Around the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. What do you think? What are our new "space-age" signifiers?
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Fashion/Museum: May 2009
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Thursday, May 28, 2009. The Model as Muse" and the Challenges of a "Sexy" Exhibition. I'm dying to get up to New York to see a few exhibits, chiefly the Met's Costume Institute exhibit "The Model as Muse." "Model as Muse" was also the theme for the Costume Institute Gala. Finally, the curators and exhibit designers must remember the mission of their institution, which, for the Met, is "to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and stimulate appreciation for and advance knowledge of works of art that collecti...
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Fashion/Museum: Summer recap and last chance to see "Art by the Yard" at the Textile Museum
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Friday, September 10, 2010. Summer recap and last chance to see "Art by the Yard" at the Textile Museum. Photo of myself and a friend at the Mod Madness event, checking out some Lucienne Day tea towels. Photo courtesy of the Textile Museum. After an extremely eventful summer, I am back and hoping to start posting more regularly again! The exhibit closes this Sunday, September 12th, so if you have not yet been to see it I highly recommend that you go! My only complaint with the exhibit was that I felt the...
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Fashion/Museum: November 2009
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009. Report from Boston: Fashion and Popular Culture. A few weeks ago I attended the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Boston to give a paper on The Jetsons and Space-Age fashion (for more on space-age fashion, see this post. It's a very interesting idea to explore. A number of her other images are at her website, http:/ www.donnacat.com/. Laura Camerlengo is looking at 19th century miser's purses, particularly examining their representati...
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Fashion/Museum: August 2009
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Monday, August 24, 2009. Report from NYC: "Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out". While we were in NYC, my husband and I stopped in at my old stomping grounds, the Museum at FIT. To see two interesting exhibits. Today's post focuses on what was by far our favorite exhibit of the weekend: "Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out.". Specifics of the exhibit, as well as more details about Toledo herself, can be found at the online exhibition webpage here. My husband raved about the exhibit when we ...
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Fashion/Museum: May 2010
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Monday, May 10, 2010. Review: American Woman at the Met. The Met now has a great feature where you can access the collections database records (including images) for all the pieces shown in the exhibition from their website, here. The second link). While it's out of order, it's a good virtual visit to the show! This weekend's museum visits were very fruitful! We went to American Woman. In many ways. Model as Muse. And getting a chance to view pieces that might otherwise be stuck in storage. It is a r...
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Fashion/Museum: October 2009
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009. Fashion and Aspiration: Glamour's Plus-Size Models and Our Body Perceptions. In this month's Glamour. Magazine is a feature on "the new definition of gorgeous. S editors) were surprised when it hit a nerve." Their theories? Check me out.". The article by Genevieve Field (which I highly encourage you to read) reveals the difficulties models have in being over a size four (and most runway models are closer to 00). First, sample sizes made for fashion photo shoots aren't mad...
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Fashion/Museum: September 2010
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Friday, September 10, 2010. Summer recap and last chance to see "Art by the Yard" at the Textile Museum. Photo of myself and a friend at the Mod Madness event, checking out some Lucienne Day tea towels. Photo courtesy of the Textile Museum. After an extremely eventful summer, I am back and hoping to start posting more regularly again! The exhibit closes this Sunday, September 12th, so if you have not yet been to see it I highly recommend that you go! My only complaint with the exhibit was that I felt the...
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