from colonial gowns to collette dinnigan: how australian fashion shook off its cultural cringe /

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National Gallery of Victoria,Melbourne
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sive current exhibition, featuring more than 120 works from 90 designers, and dramatically charts two centuries of elite clothing in AustraliaFashion is richly ambiguous. It’s silly yet meaningful,ordinary yet fantastical, tangible yet transcendent, and disposable yet precious. The National Gallery of Victoria’s current landmark exhibition weaves these diverse impulses into a coherent,chronological narrative of elite clothing in Australia. Related: Colonial couture to concept wear: 200 years of Australian fashion – in pictures Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com

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