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Alison Moloney, Wanda Lephoto and Dr Erica de Greef discuss the photograph which opened Fashion Accounts in Museum Africa which reimagines histories of Black South African youth that were either not documented or were destroyed by the apartheid police. Wanda is a Johannesburg-based designer, artist, and critic whose collaborative work negotiates the boundaries of culture and shared histories. Eric...

Alison Moloney and Rachel Dedman discuss the garmentswhich opened the show Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery , which reflect the everyday clothing rural Palestinian women wore in the early twentiethcentury. Rachel is the Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and curated  Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery  which was held at Kettl...

Alison Moloney, Christine Checinska and Elisabeth Murray discuss the opening garments by Imane Ayissi in Africa Fashion which was held at the V&A in 2022. Dr Christine Checinska is the inaugural Senior Curator African and Diaspora: Textiles and Fashion at the V&A and Lead Curator of Africa Fashion. Elisabeth Murray is Senior Curator at the Fashion Museum Bath. Prior to joining the FashionM...

Alison Moloney and Amy de la Haye discuss the opening installation of Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion which was held at The Museum at FIT in New York between August 6th and November 28th 2021. Amy is a dress curator and writer and was formerly fashion curator at the V&A where she staged the seminal 1994 Streetsyle exhibition. She is a professor and joint director of the research Centre for Fash...

Alison Moloney and Carol Tulloch discuss the opening garment in the show Black British Style which was held at the V&A in 2004. Black British Style opened with a Burton pale blue two-piece suit (1960), owned by Julian Bridgman who came to the UK from Grenada in 1960. Carol is a writer and curator and Professor of Dress, Diaspora, and Transnationalism at the University of the Arts London. She i...

Alison Moloney and Martin Pel discuss the red dress, possibly by Schiaparelli, which opened the Lee Miller show at Brighton Museum. Lee Miller was a photographer, surrealist, model, war correspondent, writer, traveller, and cook, who lived her many lives with passion and audacity. These lives are all reflected in her dress and style which is documented in this show curated by Martin. The exhibitio...

Alison Moloney and Judith Clark discuss The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined which explored ideas around fashion and taste. Devised, curated and designed by Judith, this conversation is centred on the two objects which opened the show - a chasuble fragment (1480-1500) and an Elsa Schiaparelli evening ensemble (c.1937). The exhibition was first staged at the Barbican Art Gallery in 2017 (it toured to the...