Elizabeth Currie
Dress and textile historian, lecturer at Central Saint Martins: independent.academia.edu/ElizabethCurrie
- Job alert: several part time roles coming up on the team involved in delivering the 'Order an Object' service at V&A East Storehouse. vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
- 📣 New publication in @manchesterup.bsky.social Studies in Design and Material Culture Series: 'Fashion in Theory' edited by Marco Pecorari examining the meeting points between fashion and critical theory with a range of international contributors. 🗃️🪡 #fashionhistory
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- It was fun to think about a few of my favourite books for this round up of #italianstudies on the New Books Network podcast. #earlymodern #renaissancestudies @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
- Job announcement: part time, fixed term contract for a research assistant for a global Renaissance exhibition @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social Suitable for advanced doctoral candidates/early career applicants #earlymodern #16thcentury history.web.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/ra...
- If you've ever wondered about the different kinds of clothing worn by the card players in Caravaggio's painting, 'Art in America' is featuring an extract about it from my book. #fashionhistory #earlymodern @reaktionbooks.bsky.social www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
- Central Saint Martins is looking and smelling very woolly today with lots of talks, demonstrations + displays, part of the college's ongoing collaboration with British Wool. #textilehistory #fashionhistory
- There's a 40% discount this weekend on my book 'Street Style' (and a great range of other titles!) in Reaktion Books Black Friday sale. www.instagram.com/p/DRl3eO-D1L...
- Someone really had fun with metal threads and wire here. Not content with a shiny dress, crown and sceptre, this very regal Esther has two attendants holding up her train and a parasol in a c. 1640 embroidery at The Holburne Museum, Bath. #textilehistory #fashionhistory
- The recently opened Fragonard Fashion and Costume Museum in Arles, with some beautifully displayed 18th-19th century outfits. 🪡🗃️
- I've written a short piece for History Today about changing attitudes towards the poor in sixteenth-century Rome. #earlymodern
- I enjoyed talking about soldiers, sumptuary laws and the second-hand trade in Rome for a recent episode of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🗃️🪡 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
- Anni Albers' textiles are in the spotlight in an exhibition in Bern, moving onto Vienna next year, with an accompanying Yale University Press publication. #textilehistory www.zpk.org/en/ausstellu...
- I'll be in Oxford on 28 October talking about clothing and the poor in Rome for the Italian Early Modern World Seminar. This is their line up for the term: italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/early-modern... 🗃️🪡 #earlymodern
- Part-time collections assistant post with English Heritage closing date 19 October. #museumjobs www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/our-pe...
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- Some thoughts on Caravaggio's inventive representations of dress in a blog for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. #earlymodern 🗃️🪡 reaktionbooks.co.uk/caravaggio-a...
- The Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan is displaying 120 outfits by Giorgio Armani. The show, which opened just weeks after his death, will run until 11 January. 🗃️🪡 pinacotecabrera.org/en/news/most...
- The Museum of the Order of St John is hosting a launch event for my book on 22 October. I'll be talking about the paintings of Mattia Preti, dress, textiles and life in Malta in the seventeenth century. 🗃️🪡 #earlymodern 📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-matti...
- If you're in Cambridge next Thursday I'll be talking about my new book for the Early Modern World Seminar - they have a great line up this term! #earlymodern www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
- Another AI triumph #earlymodern www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
- I'll be talking to Caravaggio expert Helen Langdon about the artist's varied sources of inspiration at the National Gallery next Monday. #earlymodern www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/carav...
- The Barbican's first fashion show in eight years opens next week: 'Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion'. 🗃️🪡 www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
- A great opportunity to get close up to some fifteenth-century printed books at this short talk at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Monday. #earlymodern www.vam.ac.uk/event/yO4oRy...
- Giovanni Bellini's Saint Jerome with an impressive tunic, complete with side clip and mini bag. Currently on display at The Courtauld Gallery with other paintings loaned from The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham. 🗃️🪡
- Looking forward to this talk at The Wallace Collection - an event linked to their Caravaggio display opening in November. #earlymodern
- Women textile designers for Liberty are the focus of the new exhibition opening at the William Morris Gallery next month - so many fabulous pieces to choose from! #textilehistory 🪡🗃️ www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/women-...
- Just discovered that the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is now open access, including my article from 2019 on clothing, health and the body in #earlymodern England and Italy. 🗃️🪡 www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...
- The Velasco show at the National Gallery, London, is well worth a visit before it closes on 17 August. As well as epic landscapes, it offers a glimpse into Mexico's burgeoning textile industry in the nineteenth century. #textilehistory
- Early career, fixed-term curatorial fellowship focusing on European paintings 1600-1800 at the National Gallery, London. #earlymodern #arthistory jobs.theguardian.com/job/9693493/...
- Serbian textile designer Bernat Klein's 'dilapidated' modernist textile studio is being sold at auction. Klein's client list included Chanel and Victor Stiebel. 🗃️🪡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- The portrait collection at Knole @nationaltrust.org.uk lived up to expectations - especially the newly conserved painting of Ralph Bosville. #earlymodern 🗃️🪡
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- The latest addition to the 'Studies in Design and Material Culture' series @manchesterup.bsky.social on the ways historical interiors have been re-presented for contemporary audiences.📣
- Great news that Flora Dennis will be joining the Warburg Institute as Deputy Director in October 👏 #earlymodern
- A Guardian review of V&A East Storehouse. Perhaps a surprising choice of object given his dislike of the recent Sargent exhibition exploring links between art and fashion. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign....
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- Carlo Crivelli's 'Annunciation' is one of many works to get a new lease of life in the National Gallery rehang. It's the first time I spotted this woman - perhaps a servant - spinning thread under an archway in the background. www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/ca...
- Looking forward to talking about men's fashions with artist and filmmaker Simon Frederick on 20 June. It's a paid event for National Gallery members but it'll also be a chance to see their newly opened Supporters' House. www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/mascu...
- Two big #fashionhistory shows in Paris this Spring: Worth at Le Petit Palais and "Au fil de l'or" at the Quai Branly - a sweeping overview of the use of gold (and its imitations) in textiles.
- Fabulous sea creatures and birds, part of a large embroidered hanging at Girona cathedral, thought to date from the twelfth century. #textilehistory 🪡
- Interesting review of Owen Hatherley's book on the impact of European refugees on British postwar art, architecture and design. Hopefully textile designers like Jacqueline Groag, Tibor Reich etc get a mention too. 📷 Marian Mahler, 1950, V&A #textilehistory🪡 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
- My book 'Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio' is in @reaktionbooks.bsky.social Autumn/Winter catalogue. The cover is a detail of a painting by Valentin de Boulogne in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. reaktionbooks.co.uk/catalogues #fashionhistory #earlymodern
- Fully funded PhD project researching #earlymodern Netherlandish objects at the Museum of the Home - looks like a really interesting project.
- There's a fantastic section showing the textiles that inspired artists like Simone Martini at the National Gallery's 'Siena' exhibition, with an accompanying catalogue essay by Lisa Monnas. #nationalgallery #textilehistory 🪡
- Fashionably dressed visitors at Southwark pleasure gardens open from 1831-56, promoting zoology + 'healthful amusement' with an erupting replica of Mount Vesuvius. From the small but fascinating show on the Lost Gardens of London at the Garden Museum, closing tomorrow. #fashionhistory #gardenhistory
