WTF, Scotland?

Perspective by Rachel Tashjian: Despite AI and other clever tech tricks, the Costume Institute’s spring exhibition — its marquee event of the year, and the occasion for the Met Gala — reminds us that only the woman inside a dress can animate it. wapo.st/4aiTmfr

Your morning cry:

Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí was born #OnThisDay in 1904. Designer Gilbert Adrian created this rayon evening dress from a textile that Dalí designed for the firm Wesley Simpson featuring fractured, anthropomorphized rocks. The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. #art #fashionhistory

Tatler reviews how the grand master painter John Singer Sargent wove fashion into his portraits trib.al/vkisnVU

Loving Elleanor (Ellen) Mahon’s needlework sampler book, made at the Boyle School in Ireland in 1852-1854 and now at the V&A. These records allowed girls to show potential employers all of their needle skills at once. I’m obsessed with the tiny dresses, socks, and gloves

“The Thames is very democratic. It gives you a clear picture of what people have been wearing or using over thousands of years. And it’s not carefully curated by a museum. The river gives up these objects randomly.' news.artnet.com/art-world/dove…

I was just tweeting about this! 'University presses typically use a peer-review process that helps screen for any factual errors. But in publishing more broadly, no one checks every date, quote, or description.' theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

A painting by Erasmus Quelliness II, stolen from Chatsworth House in 1979, has been recovered after 45 years. Spotted at a French auction, the artwork returns to its Derbyshire home, closing a decades-long mystery Chatsworth

ow.ly/Rjr950RBwGW

Postdoc (Junior Research Fellowship) in Material Culture: History of Art at Lincoln College, Oxford, applications close 30 May lincoln.ox.ac.uk/discover/vacan…

To those who don’t know:

This is from a person who wrote left to right and then turned the paper and did the same—basically using one sheet of paper for two pages—to save $.

SO not fun to read.

2024, folks.

Andrea Riseborough To Star In Isabella Blow Biopic “The Queen Of Fashion” From Writer-Director Alex Marx, With Emilia Clarke, Hayley Atwell, Richard E. Grant & Fionn O’Shea deadline.com/2024/05/andrea…

Another example of historical textile reuse! This chasuble was made from an embroidered hanging between 1550 and 1600. On display in the V&A Britain Galleries room 58.

every time he steps back on that island, photographers end up making him look a king

Celebrate 40 years of Purple Rain! 💜 From May 9 to July 27, the iconic outfit worn by Prince in his movie Purple Rain (1984) will be on display at the @mnhistorycenter

Victory in Europe Day was celebrated #OnThisDay in 1945. This commemorative dress, made of pale blue rayon printed with a motif of allied flags, Winston Churchill, aeroplanes and tanks, was worn by wartime commedienne Jenny Hayes. Imperial War Museums collection.
#VEDay #Fashionhistory

the 'unknown' met gala guests are so interesting because to the left you've got mona patel, a tech tycoon billionaire who runs multiple companies and on the right, gustav witzoe, heir to a norwegian salmon empire with a $3,8B net worth

An exceptional course online! 'Tudor Portraits'
Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 May 2024, with Dr. Christina Faraday Dr Christina J Faraday
wallacecollection.org/whats-on/event…