Book Talk: Fashion’s Missing Masses
Published earlier this year, Fashion’s Missing Masses: The Representation of Marginalized Populations in Collections and Exhibitions of Dress (Vernon Press) focuses on representation and inclusion in textile museums, a new and rapidly evolving area of research in the reexamination of dress history. Fifteen essays explore ways that clothing and other textiles have been collected, displayed and often ignored across a century and a half of museum exhibitions.
Join editor Kenna Libes and five of the book’s contributors for a presentation of their research with connections to artworks in The Textile Museum Collection.
Program
Introduction to Fashion’s Missing Masses
Kenna Libes, Bard Graduate Center, New York
“The Thobe as Biblical Fantasy: The Legacy of Orientalism in Palestinian Dress Collections”
Wafa Ghnaim, The Tatreez Institute
Flannery Surette, Okanagan College, British Columbia
“Collecting the Colony: Philippine Dress and Textiles in U.S. Museums”
Angela Hermano Crenshaw, Bard Graduate Center, New York
“Un-Fashioning Peruvian Stereotypes: Exploring Hidden Multifaceted Identities in Fashion Exhibitions”
Sandra Mathey García-Rada, Istituto Marangoni, Paris
“Representing Indigenous Fashion in Latin American Museums”
Laura Beltrán-Rubio, The Fashion and Race Database.
How to Participate
This program is free and open to the public. Space is limited, so please register in advance to reserve your spot.
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