BOOK LAUNCH & KEYNOTE: OBSERVATIONS – DRESS IN ART & DESIGN HISTORY
TUESDAY 4 MARCH
6:30PM
CLEMENGER BBDO AUDITORIUM, NGV INTERNATIONAL, 180 ST KILDA RD, MELBOURNE
US-based fashion historian and co-host of Dressed: The History of Fashion podcast, April Calahan joins us in Melbourne for an exclusive talk to celebrate the release of the NGV’s latest book – Observations: Dress in Art & Design History.
Observations: Dress in Art & Design History is the third volume in NGV’s Observations series. Writers, scholars and curators from around the world explore over 400 years of fashion history across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas in a series of edited transcripts following the 2024 online talks series of the same name.
Speaker
April Calahan is an art and fashion historian, writer and professional podcaster living and working in New York City. She is the co-host of the podcast Dressed: The History of Fashion, which she created with her friend and fellow fashion historian Cassidy Zachary to celebrate the who, what, when and why we wear throughout history and around the world. For more than a decade April served as a Special Collections curator at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she also taught in the History of Art department. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, WWD, The New York Times and The Guardian. She has lectured at cultural institutions around the world including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yale University, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and Parsons School of Design.
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LOCATION
NGV International
Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International
Ground Level (Enter via main Waterwall entrance)
180 St Kilda Rd,
Melbourne VIC 3006
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The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is the oldest and most visited gallery in Australia. Situated over two magnificent buildings – NGV International and The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia – the Gallery hosts a wide range of international and local artists, exhibitions, programs and events; from contemporary art to major international historic exhibitions, fashion and design, architecture, sound and dance.
Founded in 1861, today the NGV holds the most significant collection of art in the region; a vast treasury of more than 76,000 works that span thousands of years and a wealth of ideas, disciplines and styles. It is a collection that is yours, and it’s free! We warmly welcome you to share in these riches and the many activities, exhibitions and events developed at the NGV for us all to enjoy.
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