Refashioning and Redress: Conserving and Displaying Dress

$65.00 at The Getty Museum.

Edited by Mary M. Brooks and Dinah D. EastopThis volume explores the conservation and presentation of dress in museums and beyond as a complex, collaborative process. Recognizing this process as a dynamic interaction of investigation, interpretation, intervention, re-creation, and display, Refashioning and Redress: Conserving and Displaying Dress examines the ways in which these seemingly static exhibitions of “costume” or “fashion” are actively engaged in cultural production.  The seventeen case studies…