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Keywords: balletcubismmannequinsportsweartheater Additional informationNotes on contributorsJessica HemmingsJessica Hemmings is Professor of Craft at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is Visiting Professor with the Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary and the Rita Bolland Fellow at the Research Center for Material Culture, the Netherlands (2020–2023). Recent publications include the second edition of The Textile Reader (Bloomsbury: 2023) and a forthcoming monograph about the Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen (V-A-C and ArtEZPress: 2023). [email protected] The Metropolitan Museum of Art held Cubism and Fashion from December 10, 1998 through March 14, 1999. The exhibition was described as “an attempt to understand the fundamental changes in fashion that occurred between 1908 and about 1925 and to offer the proposition that perhaps Cubism, which transfigured art so fundamentally during that epoch, is also a prime cause of fashion’s modern forms.” (Martin 1998 Martin, Richard. 1998. Cubism and Fashion. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Google Scholar], 11)

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