Fashion, History, Museums

Abstract

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 decades—from the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 to the Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2011, and beyond—it makes connections between museum fashion and the wider fashion industry. By critically analyzing trends in fashion exhibition practice over the 20th and early 21st 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 field—from the Victoria and Albert and the Bath Fashion Museum to the Brooklyn and the Royal Ontario Museums—the 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 mass-mediated world, fashion exhibitions must be analysed in a comparative and global context. Richly illustrated with 70 images, 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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“…Fashion merupakan hal yang penikmatnya semakin meningkat dari tahun ke tahun. Menurut Madelaine Ginsburg fashion adalah hal yang paling dihargai dari benda musium dan tidak pernah lebih popular dibanding sekarang (Petrov, 2019). Dengan semakin meningkatnya industry fashion dari waktu ke waktu, maka meningkat pula limbah yang dihasilkan oleh peminatnya.…”

“…Fashion bukanlah hal yang tetap, sehingga masyarakat banyak yang membeli produk fashion bukan hanya karena butuh, namun mengikuti tren. (Indah Suhartini & Listyorini, 2011;Petrov, 2019).…”

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“…Interestingly, it was New Zealand's version of these exhibitions that were early examples of historical clothing being displayed, with 'period room' displays. (Labrum 2018, Petrov 2019, Regnault 2021.…”

“…The history of clothing and fashion in museums was also closely tied with the development of department stores, both internationally and in New Zealand. This crossover saw department store window displays and museum exhibitions closely resembling one another in their display of clothing on mannequins (or, in some cases, on real models) (Petrov 2019;Labrum 2010).…”