Fashion and textile conservator Callie O’Connor pulls back the curtain on the precarious nature of museum work and the unwritten rules young fashion professionals are expected to follow.
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The Countess of Greffulhe: Between Muse and Master of Her Self-image
The Fashion Institute of Technology (Thursday, October 20, 2016)
Into the Archive: Unpacking the Collections
The textile storage space is a place of gentle, gloved movements and careful, reverent handling of myriad artifacts. It’s a place where, currently, conservation tasks lag and preservation is maintained at a bare minimum, aimed to suspend time and deter the real world practicalities of change, decay, and age.