{"id":16319,"date":"2018-06-25T09:48:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T08:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=16319"},"modified":"2018-06-25T09:49:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T08:49:47","slug":"ulster-museum-gets-fashionable-with-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2018\/06\/ulster-museum-gets-fashionable-with-feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster Museum Gets Fashionable with Feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Designs from top names in fashion including Missoni and Dior are among pieces which will go on show today at the Ulster Museum in a new exhibition, entitled Fashion and Feminism<\/em>.<\/h1>\n

\"\"From runways to picket lines, the pieces in the exhibition tell the story of women who have made confident feminist statements through fashion. Fashion and Feminism<\/em> examines the attitudes of feminists, from as far back as the 1800s right up to today, as they utilise fashion to express their belief in the social, political and economic equality of men and women.<\/p>\n

Items on display include an elegant walking suit perfect for a suffragette \u2018dressed to protest\u2019 (1910), a Missoni \u2018Pussy Hat\u2019 (2017), based on the worldwide \u2018Women\u2019s March\u2019 of January 2017, and the iconic \u2018We Should All Be Feminists\u2019 T-shirt designed by Dior (2017), inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u2019s essay and TEDx talk of the same name. Additional highlights of the exhibition include beautiful gowns designed in the early 1900s\u2019 by the most powerful Parisian designers in the fashion world such as the Callot Sisters, Madeleine Vionnet, Jeanne Lanvin and Madame Gr\u00e8s.<\/p>\n

A key highlight is a piece on loan from London-based designers Teatum Jones\u2019 current AW18 collection which has the theme of \u2018Global Womanhood\u2019.<\/p>\n

Art Curator Charlotte McReynolds from National Museums NI said: \u201cFrom couture to casual wear, fashion has managed to make statements of how women want to be represented. This exhibition provides an opportunity for visitors to the Ulster Museum to explore the correlation between self-expression and fashion over the centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cThis exhibition celebrates some of the most extraordinary female fashion designers of the modern era, including Madeleine Vionnet, Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood. From suffragettes using fashion as part of their campaign to win the vote, to contemporary designers shedding light on social injustices, this exhibition has a lot to discuss about feminist culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

A selection of talks and workshops will also accompany the exhibition, providing a more in-depth exploration of the links between fashion and feminism. Events include a lecture by Cally Blackman, fashion historian, author and lecturer at St Martin\u2019s College of Fashion and Design (27 September).\u00a0 Blackman\u2019s talk is entitled \u2018The Sartorial Strategy of the Suffragette Sisterhood\u2019 <\/em>and she will be discussing how the suffragettes used fashion to promote their cause.\u00a0 On 25 October fashion writer and social justice campaigner Tansy Hoskins addresses the question \u2018Can Fashion be Feminist?\u2019<\/em> as she raises the profile on labour rights in the fashion industry.<\/p>\n

Fashion and Feminism is part of National Museums NI\u2019s year-long thematic programme Hear Her Voice<\/em> which highlights the female artists, designers and iconic figures in its collections, through a series of exhibitions and events across the museums.<\/p>\n

The exhibition opens to the public on Friday 22 June 2018 and runs until 2 June 2019. Admission is free.<\/p>\n

For further details of Hear Her Voice<\/em> exhibitions and events visit www.nmni.com\/hearhervoice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Designs from top names in fashion including Missoni and Dior are among pieces which will go on show today at the Ulster Museum in a new exhibition, entitled Fashion and Feminism. From runways to picket lines, the pieces in the exhibition tell the story of women who have made confident feminist statements through fashion. Fashion … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16323,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions\/16323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}