Sonnet Stanfill: Behind the Scenes of "Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945"
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Channel: Portland Art Museum · 2015 · Education
Sonnet Stanfill, Curator of 20th Century and Contemporary Fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, discusses how she brought together a major exhibition tracing over 70 years of Italian fashion, "Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945" (on view Feb. 7 – May 3, 2015, at the Portland Art Museum). Her talk offers a curator’s-eye view into how the project was transformed from idea to physical reality, including the research process, the difficulty of choosing from a host of beautiful objects, and the challenges of displaying fashion in a museum. Along the way, she highlights the exhibition’s main themes and its star objects. Lecture recorded Feb. 8, 2015, at the Portland Art Museum.
