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Notes

1 Norwegian fashion media regularly updated their readers on the museum’s fashion purchases. See for example this article in the online magazine: Ravneberget, Stine Nibe, 2020. Melk og Honning, September 11. https://melkoghonning.no/nasjonalmuseet-kjoper-inn-nok-et-norsk-motemerke/

2 “What do clothes tell us about someone’s public office, the historical time, the wearer? Can we learn more from a coronation dress or a ball gown than we see at first sight?”

3 See “The collection presentation: concept and structure.” Accessed 30 June 2022. https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/exhibitions-and-events/national-museum/exhibitions/2021/collection-exhibition/the_collection_presentation/

4 Edda Gimnes, Anne Karine Thorbjørnsen, HAiKw/, Admir Batlak, and Merilin Kolk are exhibited in one wall case. On the opposite case are designs by Kit Wan, Bror August Vestbø, Michael Olestad, Ramona Salo Myrseth, and Tonje Plur.

5 He is also one of three designers whose filmed interview is available on a touch screen terminal in room 30.

6 Máret Ánne Sara’s powerful artwork made of reindeer skulls, Pile ó Sápmi Suprem (2017), is the first artwork visitors see when entering the museum.

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Johanna Zanon

Johanna Zanon holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Oslo, where she wrote her dissertation on the revival of the haute couture brands Jean Patou, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Madeleine Vionnet since the late twentieth century. She also researched the history of the Paris house of Jean Patou in the interwar years. She has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, as well as exhibition reviews and curatorial essays. The special issue on fashion labor of which she was a guest editor appeared in International Journal of Fashion Studies 8:2 (2021). She has lectured on fashion history and theory at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and University of Oslo. Her interdisciplinary curatorial projects have looked at fashion in relation to contemporary art, crafts, and film. She is a member of the research network Culture[s] de Mode. [email protected]