Researcher
I examine fashion's ephemerality, temporality, and rematerialization. My research merges practice and theory to create a distinctive voice within the fields of fashion studies and conservation. I carry out innovative research as both a museum professional and doctoral candidate, using my professional expertise to inform my academic inquiry and vice versa. My research portfolio includes writing, exhibitions, lectures, technical and analytical reports, archival interventions, conservation treatments, artist interviews, and oral histories.
Select writings include:
“Fashion as an Event: Conservation Documentation and It’s Digital (Dis)Contents.” Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2019.
"Confronting Fashion's Death Drive: Conservation, Ghost Labor, and the Material Turn Within Fashion Curation" in Fashion Curating: Critical Practice in the Museum and Beyond, ed. by Annamari Vanska and Hazel Clark. (Bloomsbury, 2017)
"A Delicate Balance: Ethics and Aesthetics at The Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York" in Refashioning and Redress: Conserving and Displaying Dress, ed. by Dinah Eastop and Mary Brooks, 2017. (Los Angeles: Getty Trust Publications)
Co-editor of special issue “Curating Costume/Exhibiting Fashion,” Journal of Fashion, Style and Popular Culture, Volume 2, Number 1, 2015
"Inherent Vice: Challenges and Conservation" in Charles James: Beyond Fashion, by Harold Koda and Jan Reeder. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2013)
“Caring for the Cloth of Culture,” Saving Haiti’s Heritage, ed. by Richard Kurin (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2011)
Ethics + Aesthetics = Sustainable Fashion exhibition catalog. (New York: Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 2010)
“Experiments in Fashion Curation: An Interview with Judith Clark,” Fashion Projects, Volume 3, 2010
"Eco-tech Fashion: Rationalizing Technology in Sustainable Fashion" Fashion Theory, Volume 12, No 4, Dec 2008
Select lectures include:
“An Enlightened Perspective: Balancing Artist Intent with Conservation Concerns.” American Institute for Conservation 46th Annual Conference, Houston, Texas. 2018
“A Materials- and Values-based Approach to the Conservation of Fashion,” ICOM-CC Triennial Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2017
“Re-imagining Embellishment: The Conservation of Iris van Herpen’s Radically Engineered Surfaces,” North American Textile Conservation Conference, Mexico City, Mexico. 2017
"Conservation/Explication: The Costume Institute’s use of digital technologies for the preservation and interpretation of its Charles James collection." Europeana Digital Memories, Venice, Italy, 2017
“Collecting and Displaying Contemporary Fashion: The Conservator’s Perspective,” College Arts Association Annual Conference, New York, NY. 2017
"Materiality of Fashion: A Subjective View." Bard Graduate Center, November 2013
(My talk starts around the 40 minute mark)“Materiality: Locating the Object in Fashion Studies,” Fashion Studies Today: History, Theory, Practice Colloquium, New York University, New York, NY. 2012
“God is Camouflage,” Key Note Lecture. Camouflage Takes Centre Stage Conference, Royal Military Museum, Brussels, Belgium. 2010
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