"This volume originated as papers presented to the conference "Creating African Fashion Histories" held at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery in November 2016"--page vii AFA copy 39088019752393 gift from ...

The Louvre’s first fashion exhibition — titled “Louvre Couture: Art and Fashion — Statement Pieces” and on display through July 21 — highlights the fact that museums make marvelous mood boards, and ...

Up the winding staircase leading to the second floor of the Chicago History Museum, a time capsule of Chicago fashion history awaits visitors. The museum’s newest exhibition, “Dressed in History: A ...

Style retrospectives are attracting record crowds and bringing couture to a wider audience. Every year, on the first Monday in May, people tune in to watch celebrities walk up the steps of New York ...

Introduction: understanding fashion and dress museology / Marie Riegels Melchior, Designmuseum Danmark, Denmark -- Section 1. The power of fashion: when museums enter new territory : The Costume ...

The de Young Museum will host a special exhibit called “Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style” starting Saturday until Aug. 11. The exhibition will cover the history of women’s fashion in San ...

Ever since the wild success of the Alexander McQueen exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art two summers ago, fashion exhibits have been popping up in art museums all over the country. You can ...

When thinking about fashion, it’s sometimes easy to focus on superficial notions of trends, and of how clothing looks, not what it means. But anyone who attends “Africa Fashion,” the impressive ...

OF IT. THE KENTUCKY DERBY IS KNOWN FOR ITS FASHION. FROM HATS TO DRESSES AND SUITS. IT IS SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE LOOK FORWARD TO EVERY YEAR. AND NOW FOR ITS 150TH ANNIVERSARY, YOU COULD HAVE THE CHANCE ...

Five professional historians and archivists share their career journeys — from education, to finding their niche, to ...

Chipmunks that wandered St. Louis in the 1880s are preserved in a crazy quilt that is among a trove of local artifacts maintained in a basement on South Skinker Boulevard. "This is a very colorful ...