Lace in Fashion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12587767 |
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| Authors | Mary Frances Gormally (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 459-477 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Fashion Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-704X • E-ISSN: 1751-7419 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17498430.2017.1392151 |
| OpenAlex | W2766487526 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article is an extended response to the exhibition “Lace in Fashion” at Bath Fashion Museum (4th February 2017-1st January 2018). It argues that the exhibition is the “jewel in the crown” of all 2017 fashion exhibitions on view on this side of the Atlantic. What makes the Bath exhibition stand out as a good fashion exhibition lies in its multi-narrative approach to lace and lace making in historic and contemporary fashion. It is in the strategic curatorial selection of objects, the trajectory of visually striking vitrine displays, the detailed and informative captions that prompt rather than limit thinking, inviting international and national visitors into a wide range of meanings, interpretations and those unpredictable spaces of the imagined past and lived present where personal memories resonate and roam freely, creating for visitors a rich emotional and intellectual experience in a traditionally framed, object based, visitor centred, exhibition
Art · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · History
| Highly cited | No |
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