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18 Mar

The Fashion for Exhibiting Fashion with Sally Gray

How has fashion found its way into art museums and become part of our cultural discourse?

Curator and cultural historian Dr Sally Gray will look at how fashion exhibitions have become part of this formerly contested space, examining how Australian fashion found its way into art museums with exhibitions drawing huge audiences and critical interest.

Among national and international examples, the lecture will investigate the curatorial framing for Christian Louboutin: Exhibitionist at the Palais de la Porte Doree in Paris in 2020 and the exhibition The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined, at the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene in Vienna, in 2017.

Presented as part of the Melbourne Fashion Festival Independent Program: Ideas 2021

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Thu 18 Mar	10:00am - 11:30am

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