Fashion victims? How clothes took over our art galleries

Australia’s art galleries are currently enthralled by fashion.
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Comme des Garçons (Rei Kawakubo) Spring/Summer 1997. Image: Kyoto Costume Institute photo by Takashi Hatakeyama

In Melbourne Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk and Express Yourself: Romance Was Born for Kids, are both at NGV; Adelaide’s Fashion Icons: Masterpieces from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs is at the Art Gallery of South Australia and Brisbane’s Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, is showing at GOMA.

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Sally Gray
About the Author
Visiting Scholar in Cultural History, School of Art History and Art Education, UNSW Art & Design at UNSW Australia.