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Kōrero Kākahu: Jealous Saboteurs
It seems fitting that for my last post for this wonderful website that I come full circle and write about the same gallery I wrote about in my first post. City Gallery in Wellington is a long-time...
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Parisian Insights: Fashion Forward – Three Centuries of Fashion (1715-2016)
Each time a fashion exhibition opens somewhere in the world, the great and timeless debate concerning the legitimacy of such displays is questioned. Does fashion deserve to be in museums? Is fashion,...
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No Clothes in Utopia?
The word ‘utopia’ refers to an imagined state of perfection, a hopeful future, the opposite of what could go wrong with the present world. First mentioned in a text with the same title by Thomas More...
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Dressing Up with Others: Instagram Recommendations
I was going to post an exhibition review but realised that it would probably fall by the wayside, given how much attention will be paid to the US election results. Rather than compete with the...
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Parisian Insights: Bakst, des Ballets Russes à la Haute Couture
In 2013, I wrote a celebratory post about the relationship between ballet and fashion, and, reading it again today while preparing this article, there is not a word I would change and I am glad I can...
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Parisian Insights: A Happy Artistic Year!
A new year is beginning and thus comes an array of new exhibitions announced for 2017, in Paris…Quite an eclectic panorama with a spotlight on foreign cultures and designers. At the end of 2016, opened...
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Parisian Insights: L’Elégance Engagée by M/B at the Galeries Lafayette
Exhibitions and artistic displays are nothing new in stores. The ever-so lasting ‘art meets commerce’ debate is revived every time art hits shops, runways or window displays as well as when fashion...
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Parisian Insights: Mode & Femmes – 14/18
Rarely has World War I been studied through the prism of fashion and femininity. It is often as if, from 1914 to 1918, civil life had been suspended. Maud Bass-Krueger and Sophie Kurkdjian, the two...
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Parisian Insights: Tenue Correcte Exigée, quand le vêtement fait scandale
There must be something in the air that pushes curators to explore themes of vulgarity, shocking, taste and scandal in fashion. Maybe because of our political contexts, is there an urge to remind...
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Parisian Insights: Hello Goodbye
Exhibition: Balenciaga, l’Oeuvre au Noir. Personal Photo. Before I began writing for Worn Through, this website, to me, was a sort of sanctuary, a mysterious and ultra private space that united...
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