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contemporary fashion exhibits can show trends and styles of the time and what this means paired with other factors, as well as providing inspiration for fashion designers and other artists. Museums and exhibits focusing on specific designers can also be used as a form of "slow marketing", garnering more publicity and recognition for a specific brand. Perhaps most importantly, the current popularity of fashion and fashion exhibits can boost engagement with museums and draw in a higher number of visitors, ultimately benefiting the museum greatly. Fashion museums and exhibits have become one of the main ways for the general public to engage with and understand both contemporary and historical fashion, making these types of exhibits beneficial for visitors and museums alike.
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personal and human. When fashion and clothes are displayed in a historical context, they are not just showing how people dressed at the time but also revealing clues and details of individual lives through their marks of wear. Memories held within the clothes and personal details like this can be incredibly helpful for understanding history and making it more personal.
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These exhibits focus on the historical element of fashion, displaying clothing alongside other artifacts like accessories and jewelry. They can provide a wealth of information for historians, anthropologists, and researchers, but fashion designers will also often draw inspiration from such exhibits.
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The First Period started around the time right before World War II. This is when clothing collections started to be incorporated to museums' main collections. In some of the earliest examples of fashion and clothing being displayed in museums, it was almost always garments worn by historical figures
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A retrospective exhibit will focus on one designer or fashion label and show clothing in chronological order over the course of designer's career or a fashion label's beginning to current days. Occasionally, this type of exhibit will also be used to showcase a celebrity or public figure's wardrobe
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were some of the first mainstream museums to add extensive fashion exhibits and collections, proving the relatively newfound appreciation and realization of the importance of clothing in the context of museums. In the 18th and 19th centuries, clothing would be seen in museum collections pertaining
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Interdisciplinary exhibits attempt to demonstrate the strong relationship between designers and other forms of art or artists that inspire their work, and vice versa. Oftentimes, clothing will be shown alongside pieces from other visual art disciplines so visitors can see the close connection.
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is a particularly notable name of this period, as she is known for curating many popular exhibits at the
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maintain a city's reputation as a destination for fashion. Fashion museums can also show how certain fashion cities change over time through the clothes they display.
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