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Garments: Precedents for Fashion History Exhibitions in Museums

p,The earliest documented mention of a fashion museum comes from the eighteenthcentury journal The Spectator, Thearticle that suggested such a notion was written by Sir Richard Steele as an indictment of male and female folly in following fashion.


p.The very earliest displays of dress were commemorative and royal in nature,

p.The first example of an exhibition of civilian dress, occurred in the earlys,

p.Integration of fashion into the collections and displays of the major museums:

Victoria and Albert Museum VampA, London est.
fashion added in

Metropolitan Museum of Art MET, New York est,fashion added infist purchase of fashionable dress in, fist exhibition of its own fashion collection in

Royal Ontario Museum ROM, Toronto est.
fashion added

p,The visual classification of fashion as a reflection of sociocultural development was the only part of a greater drive toward the classification of global knowledge the socalled “scientific approach” to its study was an aspect of its methodology.


The New Look: Contemporary Trends in Fashion Exhibitions

p,Fashion exhibitions are certainly breaking visitor records worldwide: the Metsshow, China: Through the Looking Glass, had visitor numbers

comparable to blockbuster exhibitions and the Mona Lisa this broke the record previously held by the museumsexhibit, Savage Beauty, although the Alexander McQueen tribute became the VampAs mostvisited exhibition ever when it was restaged there in.
In, the Met broke records once again, when Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination became the largest and most popular exhibition in the museums history almostmillion visitors.

The last decade has seen the growing popularity and visibility of fashion as a cultural product, including its growing presence in museum exhibitions.
This book explores the history of fashion displays, highlighting the continuity of past and present curatorial practices, Comparing and contrasting exhibitions from different museums and decadesfrom the Paris Exposition Universelle ofto the Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in, and beyondit makes connections between museum fashion and the wider fashion industry.




By critically analyzing trends in fashion exhibition practice over theth and earlyst centuries, Julia Petrov defines and describes the varied representations of historical fashion within British and North American museum exhibitions.
Rooted in extensive archival research on exhibitions by global leaders in the fieldfrom the Victoria and Albert and the Bath Fashion Museum to the Brooklyn and the Royal Ontario Museumsthe work reveals how fashion exhibitions have been shaped by the values and anxieties associated with fashion more generally.


Supplemented by parallel critical approaches, including museological theory, historiography, body theory, material culture, and visual studies, Fashion History in the Museum demonstrates that in an increasingly corporate and massmediated world, fashion exhibitions must be analysed in a comparative and global context.
Richly illustrated withimages, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion history and museology, as well as curators, conservators, and exhibition designers.
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