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Fashioning Illinois, 1820-1900

11/13/2021

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Fashioning Illinois, 1820-1900, featured earlier this year at the Museum’s Springfield location, explores the personal experience of wearing and caring for clothing and how fashion reflected women’s changing roles and attitudes over the first 80 years of Illinois statehood.
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Travel with The Fashion Map: Fashion Designers of Asian Heritage

9/15/2021

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THE FASHION MAP takes you on a journey across Asia to celebrate the excellence of several fashion designers of Asian heritage. We curated a selection of garments and shoes on display at the Columbia Fashion Windows located at 618 S Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The exhibition runs from September 15 through October 4, 2021.

Columbia Fashion Windows is an outdoor art gallery for the South Loop community in Chicago. It is managed by Columbia College Chicago's Fashion Studies department, and is designed to showcase the interface of fashion with the arts and fashion as a wearable art.

The garments shown in the Columbia College Chicago fashion window exhibition were selected from the Columbia College Chicago Fashion Study Collection or were provided via private collection. Images shown in the exhibit were provided by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Fashion Resource Center.

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#MADEITFASHION GUIDED TOUR WITH PETRA SLINKARD

3/1/2021

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By: Lotta Yanong
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We are so excited to announce that The Fashion Map and Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) are teaming up to offer a special guided tour of the Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion exhibition with Petra Slinkard, Director of Curatorial Affairs and The Nancy B. Putnam Curator of Fashion and Textiles! The exhibition ends on March 14th so if you live in the area, this is one of the last days to view the exhibition and what better way to do so than with the Curator herself!

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WIRED TO WEAR

5/10/2020

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BY: LOTTA YANONG
Wired to Wear is the first-ever exhibit dedicated to wearable technology—smart clothing and devices designed to extend the human body’s capabilities and make us healthier, stronger and safer. Jackets that help you “see” in dark spaces. Racing suits that deploy their own airbags. A Jet Suit capable of traveling 32 mph. The future of wearable technology is here to explore now.

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LEVI STRAUSS: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN STYLE

4/22/2020

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BY: LOTTA YANONG
LEVI STRAUSS FASHION EXHIBITION CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM
In 1873, at the end of the California Gold Rush, Levi Strauss & Co., named for a Bavarian Jewish dry goods merchant in San Francisco, obtained a U.S. patent with tailor Jacob Davis on the process of putting metal rivets in men’s denim work pants to increase their durability. It was the birth of the blue jean.

The Contemporary Jewish Museum is pleased to present 
Levi Strauss: A History of American Style, an original exhibition showcasing the life of Levi Strauss, the invention of the blue jean, and their iconic place in the history of American style. ​Levi Strauss: A History of American Style is organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco in collaboration with Levi Strauss & Co. Historian Tracey Panek and co-curated by The CJM’s Chief Preparator and Exhibition Designer, Justin Limoges and Senior Curator, Heidi Rabben.

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Virgil Abloh: "Figures of Speech"

8/5/2019

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BY: LOTTA YANONG
Virgil Abloh Figures of Speech Exhibition at the MCA Chicago
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) presents Virgil Abloh: "Figures of Speech," the first-ever museum exhibition devoted to the work of the ultramodern, genre-bending artist and designer Virgil Abloh. Raised in Chicago by parents who emigrated from Ghana, Abloh was trained in engineering and architecture but cultivated an interest in music, fashion, and design.
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Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism

6/2/2019

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BY: LOTTA YANONG
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​I had the opportunity to attend the Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism exhibition at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville​, Tennessee on opening day, May 24th, 2019. The photographs and paintings are from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection and the exhibition was curated by Trinita Kennedy. The exhibition was organized by the Vergel Foundation and MondoMostre in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL).

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Silver Screen to Mainstream

5/12/2019

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BY: LOTTA YANONG

​I had the pleasure of viewing the Chicago History Museum's current costume collection exhibition with a private curatorial tour hosted by Nena Ivon and led by curator Virginia Heaven. The tour was part of Retrospect Vintage Chicago's weekend from May 2 through May 5.
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