What is Fashion Curation?

Let’s start with curation. Despite the red squiggly line your word processor draws under it curation is a word. It refers to the work done in museums and galleries all over the world from collecting objects to researching and displaying them. Curators can be very specialized or cover a broad area but fashion curation is one of these specializations.

Fashion curation deals specifically with dress but can also take in ‘fashion’ in its broadest sense- fashion photography, fashion prints and illustrations, accessories, textiles and all sorts of cultural material relating to fashion.

MA Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion is the only fashion specific curatorial course in the world. Course Director Shaun Cole, who was a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum for fifteen years, describes the course in the following way

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MA Fashion Curation is a unique course that offers an opportunity for individuals to investigate Fashion Curation as a professional practice informed from a number of perspectives including fashion design, fine art, photography, publishing, marketing, retail design, exhibition design and architecture. The course is structured to simultaneously integrate the academic study of fashion curation and enquiry into contemporary curating with practical approaches to the discipline, through the exploration of real, hypothetical and virtual contexts. Specialist units offer the fast pace of live industrial projects and the rigour of academic research that mark the tempo of contemporary practice.

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To find out more about the course and perhaps even start your own curatorial journey click here

Teaching on the course comes from a startling number of different practioners and theorists of museology and dress. For this project we are lucky enough to have the input of Judith Clark, a former Course Director of MA Fashion Curation alongside Amy de la Haye. Judith is a fashion curator and exhibition designer who has produced some of the most exciting work in the field.

To see some of Judith’s projects click here 

The advice of professional practicioners has been invaluable on this project. We would like to express our gratitude to all the lecturers that have come in to talk about their own practice and special thanks to Shaun Cole and Judith Clark.

To see what previous students of MA Fashion Curation have been up to click here