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1. The 1998 exhibition Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles also included garments but was not centered around fashion. A series of small fashion exhibitions were also curated by stylist Hollywood Di Russo between 1978 and 1985 but at MoMA PS1.

2. Introductory wall text.

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Alex Esculapio

Alex Esculapio is a PhD candidate and lecturer at University of Brighton, UK. Alex’s doctoral thesis assesses the implications of the concept of emotional durability, a term that describes approaches to product design that aim to encourage, nurture and sustain long-term relationships between users and objects, for contemporary fashion histories, practices and discourses. [email protected]