LUXURY TALES: FASHION AND INTERIORS
THURSDAY 27 FEBRUARY
10:00AM
PULLMAN MELBOURNE ON THE PARK, 192 WELLINGTON PDE, EAST MELBOURNE
Please arrive 10 minutes before booking.
When Dior was asked to explain the luxury of high fashion to Time Magazine [1957] he replied: ‘We inherited a tradition of craftsmanship rooted in the anonymous artisans who constructed the cathedrals and expressed their genius in chiselled stone gargoyles and cherubs. We also benefit, paradoxically, from having a singularly difficult consumer, the Parisienne’.
In this two-part special lecture we explore the vagaries of luxury from the ballgowns of the 19th-century Dollar Princesses, to the consumption of chocolates and mass-produced foodstuffs, to health, insurance, cars, air conditioning, gemstones, ‘Gentlemen’ preferring ‘Blondes’, the Reagan and Thatcher years, the decline of the great plutocrat collectors, and the rise of ‘masstige’ or mass luxury and experience culture.
Lifestyles of the rich and famous across the 19th and 20th centuries are discussed, through the intersections of fashion, interiors, and consumer products. Learn about the vagaries, changes and also the persistence of luxury as both practice and concept across time, place and experience, from fashion to the interior and back again.
Tickets $65
EVENT DETAILS
LOCATION
The Johnston Collection is located in a residential area, the address cannot be published.
Visitors arrive via the Pullman Melbourne on the Park — 192 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne — 10 minutes before their booking. Visitors are welcomed by our friendly Visitor Services staff who meet all visitors at the Pullman for a short — less than five minute — journey to The Johnston Collection in the courtesy bus.
Map
ACCESSIBILITY
If you have a mobility, visual or hearing impairment, we are here to help.
Please note there is no lift in Fairhall exhibition-house and access to the second floor requires climbing a fairly steep staircase comprising 21 steps to the first landing and then a further 8 steps to reach the second level.
Wheelchair and walker access is limited to the Ground Floor in the Administration Building and Fairhall exhibition-house. A foldable chair is available Fairhall exhibition-house for visitors on request.
If you have any condition that requires special consideration please contact us by email or by telephone +61 3 9416 2515 before you book a ticket online.
For more information, visit The Johnston Collection here.
ABOUT THE EVENT ORGANISER
The Johnston Collection is a multi award-winning and critically acclaimed house museum that invites creatives from the broader visual arts and design communities to re-interpret the Collection through a regular program of re-installation and interventions of the permanent collection.
EVENT CONTACT
E: hello@johnstoncollection.org
P: +61 3 9416 2515
EVENT INFORMATION
All-ages event