Notes
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.
Additional information
Notes on contributors
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]