The Wardrobe Explores Possibilities for Fashion Archives at Secret Warehouse

6 Apr

For fashion historian and exhibition curator, Julie Ann Clauss, the preservation of fashion archives goes well beyond the storing of seasonal items — it’s about taking them into the long run and keeping them relevant. Known for her experience archiving and curating for the Museum at FIT, Deitch Projects and other designer archives, with museum-level standards, Clauss was tapped by Tom Ford in 2008 to ascertain a comprehensive achievement of his work. It was then, Clauss told WWD, that she realized a resource that offered museum-quality fashion collection management and curational services was a necessity the industry was severely lacking. In 2011, Clauss launched The Wardrobe, a premier fashion archival consultancy and curation studio that gives museum-quality conservation and restoration. The Wardrobe’s...

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31 Jan

This book explores what it’s wish to navigate beauty

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This book explores what it’s wish to navigate beauty

Chloé Cooper Jones discusses her debut book Easy Beauty – an eye-opening exploration of beauty from someone who exists on the periphery of our cultural beauty ideals “I'm in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to 2 men, my friends, discuss whether my life is price living.” So begins Easy Beauty, the debut book and genre-bending memoir from philosophy professor and Pulitzer Prize-finalist author Chloé Cooper Jones. It’s not the primary time her body – its autonomy and inherent value – has been discussed in front of her. Not the primary time it’s been discussed as if separate from her, the person sat right there, listening as friends, colleagues or strangers evaluate her existence, dismissing...

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24 Dec

Ronan Mckenzie explores intimacy, desire, and connection through Selasi

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Ronan Mckenzie explores intimacy, desire, and connection through Selasi

The photographer, director, and rising designer debuted second collection ‘I Close My Eyes and Taste Desire’ at an East London church Every little thing Ronan Mckenzie touches turns to gold. As a photographer, stylist, art curator, and now designer, she is a number one example of how creatives can exist beyond the box they're instructed to position themselves in. Throughout her creative endeavours, Mckenzie has time and time again proved the wonder in authentic connections inside communities. In 2020, she launched Home by Ronan Mckenzie, a Black-owned multi-functional creative space which provides each exhibitions and community spaces for artists. Then got here her beautifully intimate clothing line Selasi, which translates from the Ghanian language...

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25 Nov

Tyler Mitchell’s recent show explores Black life within the

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Tyler Mitchell’s recent show explores Black life within the

Tyler Mitchell ‘Chrysalis’, a picture by Tyler Mitchell, portrays a young sleeping man under a mosquito net. Eyes wide shut, he appears to be navigating the complex folds of a dream, the past and present in surreal collision. Mitchell is intrigued by compositional layering like this. His work, he tells Rianna Jade Parker, is coated in a barely visible atmosphere, a strangeness that tugs it back many years, to the nostalgia of youth, family and our natural surroundings. His debut solo show in London presents images that tap on the history of Black life within the American south, talking to a ‘fundamental resilience, radiance and full human agency’ in its people. The netting, invisible or not, through which his work is filtered is...

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