TY - BOOK ID - 103684835 TI - Fashion and museums : theory and practice AU - Melchior, Marie Riegels AU - Svensson, Birgitta AU - Bloomsbury Academic PY - 2015 SN - 1472525248 1472527666 1472567935 1350050911 1472567927 9781472567925 9781472525246 9781472527660 9781472567932 PB - London [etc.] Bloomsbury Academic DB - UniCat KW - 20.12 art museums. KW - 21.85 costume and fashion. KW - ART KW - Beauty and Fashion. KW - Costume museums. KW - DESIGN KW - Museum exhibits KW - Museum Studies. KW - Fashion. KW - Textile & Costume. KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103684835 AB - "Why 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"-- ER -