Fashion Projects #5 is devoted to fashion curation, examining the meteoritic rise in relevance of fashion exhibitions.

It features interviews with an eclectic assortment of leading practitioners from different corners of the world. The issue includes long Q&As with Harold Koda, the longtime, recently retired curator of the Met’s Costume Institute, as well as the Museum at FIT’s veteran leader Valerie Steele. It also features interviews with curators in Antwerp (the ModeMuseum’s Kaat Debo), Toronto (Royal Ontario Museum’s Alexandra Palmer) and Venice (Maria Luisa Frisa); academics studying the field (Hazel Clark, Annamari Vänskä, and Alistair O’Neill); and, giving an on-the-ground perspective, the Met’s head conservator, Sarah Scaturro. The issue’s cover stars Greer Lankton’s sculptural representation of legendary Vogue editor and Costume Institute doyenne Diana Vreeland, who continues to loom over the field years after her death.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Showmanship and History: An Interview with Harold Koda by Francesca Granata

Woman of Steele: An Interview with Valerie Steele by Lisa Santandrea

Exploring Fashion’s Openness: An Interview with Kaat Debo by Alex Esculapio

London, After a Fashion Curator: An Interview with Alistair O’Neill by Alexis Romano

Curation and Conservation: An Interview with Sarah Scaturro by Mae Colburn

Reflections on Fashion Curating

An Interview with Hazel Clark and Annamari Vänskä 

Fashion in the Vast Museum: An Interview with Alexandra Palmer by Ingrid Mida

Restless Curating: An Interview with Maria Luisa Frisa by Marco Pecorari