{"id":485,"date":"2011-05-27T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2011-07-01T10:56:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T17:56:45","slug":"week-in-review-fashion-history-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/27\/week-in-review-fashion-history-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Week in Review: Fashion History on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week went by in a flurry of activity, and so far my little blog experiment seems to be going well. A good deal of that activity came through via Twitter: Exhibitions were discussed, there was a particularly enjoyable (and well organized) Tweet chat amongst fashion bloggers, and I met some rather interesting people. It seems seems a round-up of sorts is in order:<\/p>\n

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Roberto Capucci's Nove gonne (Nine Dresses) Dress, 1956, silk taffeta (N.39) Photography by Claudia Primangeli \/ L.e C. Service (Via C'est La Mode)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, the new Roberto Capucci<\/a> exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art started making the rounds – if you’re not familiar with his work, get ready to be amazed. I feel like Capucci might be one of those amazing designers who’s unappreciated (not for long!).<\/p>\n

The Museum at F.I.T.’s new exhibit on sportswear titled Sporting Life<\/a>, started popping on my radar as well – looks good but I wonder how much this exhibition will differ from their previous sportswear exhibit, All-American: A Sportswear Tradition (1985) curated by Richard Martin. Not surprisingly, Museum of FIT also hosted a special celebration of Claire McCardell’s birthday<\/a> last week (She’s so my girl).<\/p>\n

A number of other large-scale fashion exhibits continue to gather steam via twitter and other social media sites, especially Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. (Side note: how does the New York Review of Books<\/a> print a review of the exhibition, and leave out mentioning the exhibition catalog or its essays? What’s wrong with this picture?)<\/p>\n

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From Beauty Culture (Via Annenberg Space for Photography)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But I digress. Happily, I also learned of a new ‘under the radar’ exhibit happening here in California. Beauty Culture<\/a>, on now through November at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City includes 100+ artists and 170 photographs by fashion, beauty and fine art photographers who explore “the links between beauty and violence, glamour and sexuality and the cost (in its multiple meanings) of beauty.”<\/p>\n

But new exhibitions aren’t the only things I learned about on Twitter this week. On Wednesday the Independent Fashion Bloggers group held a group chat, which was fascinating to read\/watch. It fostered a good deal of discussion about how to promote a blog, but it also fostered some good relationship building among bloggers.\u00a0 It looks like that’s to be a weekly occurrence (follow the hash tag #IFBChat and follow them @_IFB<\/a> for next weeks discussion).<\/p>\n

Twitter also brought to my attention a fellow blogger and historian, Melissa Donne (@melissa_donne<\/a>), a PhD student at the University of Southampton researching fashion in film. She’s working on a thesis studying the interactions between these two, vastly different worlds, and is also blogging at Fashion in Films<\/a>. Definitely one to watch.<\/p>\n

That’s just a small snippet of the things flying across the screen this past week. I’m looking forward to seeing what next week will bring – hopefully some goodies. Come join the conversation and see what’s going on: follow along with me @FashionHistoria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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