Refashioning and Redress: Conserving and Displaying Dress

A wide-ranging account of the world of displaying dress and costume told through the unique vantage of conservators.

Refashioning and Redress explores the conservation and presentation of dress in museums and beyond as a complex, collaborative process. The seventeen case studies included here--presented by conservators, curators, artists, designers, makers, and researchers from around the world--range from the practical to the conceptual. These contributions demonstrate the material, social, and philosophical interactions inherent in the conservation and display of dress and draw upon diverse disciplines from dress history to social history, material culture studies to fashion studies, and conservation to museology. Themes include fashion as spectacle, dress as political and personal memorialization, and theatrical dress, as well as dress from living indigenous cultures, dress in fragments, and dress online.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606065114
• ISBN13: 9781606065112
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.4"