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Imagining Fashion

Imagining Fashion

In Conversation with Adele Varcoe on the Performative Potential of Fashion

Performance is something integral to fashion, in industry, and our everyday experience: from catwalk presentations, photo shoots and red carpet events to the dressing up we engage with in our daily lives, all are very much acts of performance in an industry that is necessarily expressive. Artist Adele Varcoe’s work is concerned with these functions – a keen observer of the phenomenon of fashion and our responsive behaviour, her performance events and happenings aim to address fashion and our experience of clothing.

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Inside Out: Part One

Inside Out: Part One

A two-part collaborative project between the National Gallery of Victoria and Vestoj

A two-part collaborative project between the National Gallery of Victoria and Vestoj, we explore the often-unseen spaces of a gallery archive with photographer Adam Custins and writer Winnie Mitford. Following a selection of garments assembled by curator, Paola Di Trocchio, each unique with its own provenance, maker, wearer and cultural context.

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