The Rijksmuseum holds a 2-day conference on the future of fashion in museums regarding display and conservation will be discussed.
Not only the curator’s and conservator’s point of view will be presented, but also the administrator’s – who is very often unfamiliar with costume & fashion’s different requirements and has to be convinced of the steep cost of a fashion exhibit. Experts from leading national & international institutions will present their insights: a conference not to be missed!!
Over the past two decades most of the blockbuster fashion exhibitions around the world have centred around present day fashion designers and were more or less offered to the respective institutions as a complete package including the extensive marketing and publicity apparatus of the fashion brand. This is a far cry from Diana Vreeland’s original concept (1983-4) of a museum celebrating a contemporary designer – in her case Yves Saint Laurent – by presenting a retrospective curated by the museum and presented by them.
In a speech delivered by renowned fashion journalist Suzy Menkes (International Vogue Editor) at the Rijksmuseum in June 2015 she called for a return to museum curated exhibitions based on in-depth research of their own collections which hold so many amazing yet unexplored treasures. With the exhibition Catwalk, Fashion in the Rijksmuseum (20 February – 15 May 2016) the museum puts a renewed step in this direction by presenting a cross-section of its costume collection – the oldest in the country – in a setting designed by renowned Dutch photographer, Erwin Olaf.
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Mode in musea is de laatste jaren enorm populair geworden. Dit hangt deels samen met grote ‘blockbuster’ tentoonstellingen die vaak (deels) wordt gefinancierd door grote modehuizen. Dit heeft invloed op de presentaties van musea met kostuumcollecties, die moeten voldoen aan een veranderend verwachtingspatroon van bezoekers.
Op 21 en 22 april organiseert het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam een symposium over deze ontwikkelingen. Conservatoren en restauratoren uit verschillende landen zullen aan de hand van dit thema in gaan op de huidige situatie en de afwegingen die zij in hun werk moeten maken.
Voor meer informatie en het programma: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/nu-in-het-museum/symposia/fashion-in-museums