Amy De La Haye

Biographic Data

ID5395620
NAMEAmy De La Haye
GIVEN NAMESAmy
FAMILY NAMEDe La Haye
SIGNATUREDE LA HAYE A
AFFILIATIONSAmy de la Haye is a Senior Research Fellow at the London College of Fashion (0.4), an independent fashion curator, and creative consultant. She is co-curator of the exhibition “Fashion and Fancy Dress: Six Generations of the Messel Family Dress Collection 1865–2005,” which opened at Brighton Museum, Brighton, UK in October 2005, and co-author of the accompanying publication (with Philip Wilson). From 1991 to 1999 she was Curator of Twentieth-Century Dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX2

  • Letter from guest editor

    Amy De La HayeARTICLEFashion Theory2018

  • A Critical Analysis of Practices of Collecting Fashionable Dress

    Amy De La HayeARTICLEFashion Theory2018Cited by: 2

    This article analyzes various practices of collecting fashionable dress. The first section comprises a critical analysis of terminologies and theories that explore definitions of a collected object, a collection and some specificities of collecting fashionable dress. There follows a series of themes arranged in a biographical sequence of a collector’s lifetime and that of a collection. These include explorations of when in a person’s life they co…

  • Four short papers

    Amy De La HayeARTICLEFashion Theory2018

    When objects are defined in terms of their use value, they serve as extensions of the body into the environment, but when objects are defined by the collection, such an extension is inverted, servi

  • Rei Kawakubo. Comme des Garçons. Art of the In-Between

    Amy De La Haye, Jeffrey HorsleyARTICLEFashion Theory2018

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced in their press release that this exhibition was 'a collaboration between Kawakubo and the MET”. It was Andrew Bolton, Head Curator of the MET’s Costume Inst

  • History of Design

    Open AccessAmy De La HayeARTICLEMuseum Anthropology Review…2015

    This work is a book review considering the title History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture 1400-2000 edited by Pat Kirkham and Susan Weber

  • One Object

    Amy De La Haye, Judith ClarkARTICLEFashion Theory2008Cited by: 4References: 2

    This article develops a paper, of the same title, presented jointly by the authors at London College of Fashion's Centenary Conference in Fall 2006. It examines and explores how curatorial interventions can inform the interpretation and display of dress within the context of the museum or gallery. To do this it case-studies one garment type—the mass-produced, overall coats manufactured as part of the working uniform of Britain's Women's Land Army…

  • Vogue and the V&A Vitrine

    Amy De La HayeARTICLEFashion Theory2006Cited by: 6

    Pristine new garments selected from the international catwalks, and on occasion period pieces and items from the High Street, are styled by Vogue to entice, inspire, and assist their readers' own fashion and style choices. Fashionable dress for the forthcoming season is presented in the context of consumption. But, when the occasion calls, how does Vogue convey, textually and visually, the history and museological interpretations of its subject t…

  • New Gallery Review

    Amy De La Haye, Rebecca QuintonARTICLEFashion Theory2004Cited by: 1

    (2004). New Gallery Review: “What Happened to all Those Lovely Costumes?”. Fashion Theory: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 339-350

  • Exhibition Review

    Amy De La HayeARTICLEFashion Theory2004

  • Articulating Dress Studies

    Amy De La HayeARTICLEFashion Theory2000

    (2000). Articulating Dress Studies: A Workshop on Research and Teaching, 11th June 1999. Fashion Theory: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 235-242