MA Fashion Curation
PROFILE With this MA I have investigated the specialist practice-based, critical and interpretative skills involved within the discipline of fashion curation. These include displaying dress, creating stories from objects, identifying venues and target audiences, writing text labels, model-making, collecting, handling and archiving fashion-related objects. I have gained a comprehensive theoretical expertise within fashion history and museology, which together with my practical background in architecture compose a unique professional profile. I love to work âhands-onâ combining my theoretical and practical skills to achieve innovative and beautiful solutions. Besides finishing my MA I have improved my skills as a curator through various work experiences. I have been archiving and cataloguing the Alexander McQueen Archive, preparing the 'Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty' exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. I have assisted Judith Clark setting up 'Washed Up', an ocean-inspired exhibition showcasing vintage and avant-garde fashion by designers such as Hussein Chalayan, Alexander McQueen, Gareth Pugh and Philip Treacy, in Selfridges London. Additionally, I have worked as an intern at the department of costume and textiles at Museum of London. Here I helped with the cataloguing, archiving and handling of objects. I also prepared visits to the stores and developed exhibition proposals. PROJECTS 'Fashion Dolls â Fashion Icons of the 18th Century' is an MA thesis and associated exhibition proposal exploring the French and English 18th Century fashion dolls. The wooden dolls were the earliest method of demonstrating current fashion in full and copy-able detail. The dolls were frequently sent from Paris to the various courts of Europe in the first part of the century whereas England became a significant manufacturer in the last part of the century, eventually serving a newly established mass-market. The aim of the paper was to acknowledge the importance of these early fashion dolls as well as to close an apparent gap in the dollsâ underexplored material history. 'Looking Twice â Fashion and Illusion' was a group exhibition staged at the Collective Gallery in Camden. The exhibition explored the illusory nature of dress, showcasing the work of international fashion graduates.'The LCF Catalogue Record' is cataloguing the collection of Tommy Nutter suits on loan from Alistair OâNeill kept in the London College of Fashion Archive. 'Cast and Mould' is an exhibition proposal exploring the work of Danish avant-garde designers Vilsbøl de Arce in dialogue with the Royal Cast Collection, Copenhagen.