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Barbie Fashion
Yesterday, I went to see the Barbie®: A Cultural Icon  exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. This exhibit explored...
Thea Hwang
Mar 16


Asian Fashion
Is there such a thing as Asian fashion? Asia is the largest continent by land mass, with 49 countries and a multiplicity of cultures,...
Thea Hwang
Mar 4


Invisible Seams
Invisible Seams  is a 17-minute documentary spotlighting eight talented Asian women working in various often unseen capacities in New...
Thea Hwang
Feb 28


Sleeping Beauties: 3D-ification & Animation
An intention behind the Costume Institute’s 2024 Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion  exhibit was to use innovative, scientific...
Thea Hwang
Jan 20


Sleeping Beauties: Forever Flowers
Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion  was the Costume Institute’s 2024 exhibit at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Implied by...
Thea Hwang
Jan 9


Wicked Style: Storytelling through Fashion
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I saw the movie Wicked  (Part 1) and it was AMAZING! Not only was the set a color explosion and Cynthia...
Thea Hwang
Dec 3, 2024


Cultural Expression
I wanted to follow the post on cultural appropriation with a contrasting highlight of cultural expression. While this entry involves a...
Thea Hwang
Nov 2, 2024


Cultural Appropriation
The Metropolitan Museum of Art held a 2023 retrospective of Karl Lagerfeld’s lifetime oeuvre. With a career spanning from the 1950s to...
Thea Hwang
Oct 8, 2024


Indigenous Fashion
The fashion gatekeepers have tended to view Indigenous dress practices, and generally the dress of non-white, non-Euro-American cultures,...
Thea Hwang
Sep 7, 2024


Dress Coded
On August 16, 2024, the New York Times reported that a group of female NYC public school students spoke at a June city council hearing...
Thea Hwang
Aug 20, 2024


Identity is…
Identity is…, a maximalist coat made by textile artist and queer activist Sylvan, portrays identity as a multifaceted creative act. In...
Thea Hwang
Jul 16, 2024


Not the Red Dress, but a Calico Dress
Taking inspiration from how the Red Dress brought people together in a collective art-making endeavor, the Southern Vermont Arts Center,...
Thea Hwang
Jun 12, 2024


A Postscript to the Red Dress
I came across a Dressed: The History of Fashion podcast episode where the fashion historian hosts, April Calahan and Cassidy Zachary,...
Thea Hwang
May 21, 2024


Not a Little Black Dress, but the Red Dress
I had a chance to see the Red Dress when it was exhibited at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in its first stop of a multi-year and city...
Thea Hwang
Apr 7, 2024


Review: Dress to Impress
In February, I went to Dress to Impress: The Intersection of Fashion and the Built Environment, a talk by Andi Soos, an independent...
Thea Hwang
Mar 5, 2024


(Marginalized) Women Dressing (Marginalized) Women
This follow-up post to my Women Dressing Women review spotlights certain women designers of color as well as work that uplifts...
Thea Hwang
Feb 19, 2024


Women Dressing Women
I recently saw the Costume Institute’s fall 2023 exhibit, Women Dressing Women , at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit covered...
Thea Hwang
Feb 1, 2024


Paper Dresses, but not for Paper Dolls!
At the end of summer 2023, I went to the Generation Paper: A Fashion Phenom of the 1960s exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design in New...
Thea Hwang
Jan 1, 2024


Going Vintage
With the 2023 holiday season just around the corner, I wanted to link to a post and Pinterest board I made for Teens for Small Biz...
Thea Hwang
Dec 19, 2023


Fashion's Climate Breakdown: Searching for Higher Ground, Literally and Figuratively
I recently came across Higher Ground? Fashion’s Climate Breakdown, a study by Cornell University's Global Labor Institute in partnership...
Thea Hwang
Nov 12, 2023
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