Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice

Fashion and Museums\nTheory and Practice\nWhy is fashion "in fashion" in museums today? This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice. Chapters explore the role of fashion in the museum across a range of international case studies including the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Fashion Museum at Bath, ModeMuseum in Antwerp and many more. Contributions look at topics such as how fashion has made museums accessible to diverse audiences and how curators present broader themes and issues such as gender, class and technology innovatively through exhibiting fashion. Drawing on approaches from dress history, fashion studies, museum studies and curatorship, this engaging book will be key reading for students and scholars across a range of disciplines.\nAdditional ISBNs\n9781472527660Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice 1st Edition is written by Marie Riegels Melchior; Birgitta Svensson and published by Bloomsbury Academic. ISBNs for Fashion and Museums are 9781472567932, 1472567935 and the print ISBNs are 9781472525246, 1472525248. Additional ISBNs include 9781472527660.