THE MARRIAGE OF FASHION AND ART
THURSDAY 19 FEBRUARY
1:00PM – 3:00PM
TALK
Art and fashion have a primary function today of representing the body. Designer Marc Jacobs was supremely successful in rebranding older luxury goods through art-fashion collaborations that include Jürgen Teller, Cindy Sherman and Takashi Murakami. Tracey Emin worked with Longchamp, Alexander McQueen with Damien Hirst. Spectacular effects from fashion and film are the ‘new normal’. Parades surpass art installations: from art comes the idea of autonomy. Fashion needs artists.
This lecture questions: Do contemporary audiences even distinguish between formats such as art and fashion, and will art-fashion pairings survive the ecological critiques of the hyper-digital age?
Your ticket includes two lectures by special guest Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil, and an afternoon tea of petit fours and tea or Market Lane coffee, served on our Wedgwood fine bone china, and time to browse our exclusive range of books, gifts, and homewares at TJC Emporium.
The Johnston Collection, 192 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne
Tickets $55
Link to book coming soon
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Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil FAHA is an award-winning design historian. His book 'Pretty Gentlemen’: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-century Fashion World was published by Yale University Press (2018) and was a Marina Warner ‘Book of the Year’ in London Review of Books. McNeil worked with Los Angeles County Museum of Art on the major exhibition Reigning Men(2016). He has written on shoes for the bi-lingual Swedish/English Men’s Fashion: An Untold Story (2022) and co-edited a best seller, Shoes, with Giorgio Riello in 2006. The Johnston Collection (TJC) is a house museum with a superb collection of English Georgian, Regency, and Louis XV fine and decorative arts, and objet d’art which was a gift from William Robert Johnston (1911-1986) to the people of Victoria. Johnston was a prominent Melbourne-born antique dealer, real estate investor and collector. The Collection is displayed in a constantly changing domestic setting, in his former residence, Fairhall, an historic East Melbourne townhouse.
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For more information, please contact the event organiser:
The Johnston Collection
hello@johnstoncollection.org