Cabinet Stories

Cabinet Stories explores fashion from seven different curatorial perspectives in the traditional museum setting of a cabinet. Cabinet Stories toured to communities that may experience disadvantage and has been displayed in a women’s prison, a mental health centre for people with borderline personality disorder, and a residential care home for the elderly, before opening to the public in an Emmaus charity shop. This was exhibitions as research and the audiences response to the displays was integral to the project.

Cabinet Stories was devised by Curator Alison Moloney and commissioned along with Jessamine Tierney from the Social Responsibility team at London College of Fashion.

Seven cabinets:

Fashion & Sport in 1910 - curated by LCF’s Professor Amy de la Haye is an exhibition displaying postcards from the 1910 roller skating craze. It shows the kinds of impractical garments women wore when stretch fabrics weren’t available.

Unfolding Fashion: Fans & the Art of Advertising - by Jacob Moss curator at The Fan Museum, explores how fans were designed to promote consumer goods and leisure activities such as shopping and dining, in the 1900s.

Clothes as the Story of our Lives - by exhibition-maker Jeff Horsley, looks at how clothes, like photographs, remind us of stories from our past, of experiences we had and emotions we felt.

Little Ghosts - by Oriole Cullen, senior curator at the V&A has curated an exhibition looking at items of clothing that were familiar everyday objects 100 years ago, but as time has passed and fashions have changed, they have become strange and unusual.

Fashion and Fiction - curated by LCF’s Alison Moloney, shows how some of London’s most influential designers have reimagined the childhood antics of comic strip icons in their collections.

Spinning Yarns – an exhibition by independent curator Niamh White, looks at a new generation of young designers reviving lost, forgotten or little used crafts to hand make the fabrics used in their fashion collections.

The Flat Cloth Cap curated by Professor Carol Tulloch, Chelsea College of Art and V&A explores the evolution of the flat cloth cap as a cultural icon.

(Source: http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/fashion/2016/02/23/cabinet-stories-new-centre-fashion-curation-lcf-social-responsibility-project/)

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