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Fashioning San Francisco: celebrating the style of a city
An immersive new exhibition showcases select pieces from one of America’s largest collections of fashion to pay tribute to the look of San Francisco
Photograph: Randy Dodson, courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San FranciscoSeeing these clothes as worn objects, not just pieces of fashion history, was very much at the forefront of Camerlengo’s mind as she curated this show. “I hope this exhibition helps to upend the narrative by connecting the clothes to these really important pillars of our community – suffragettes, poets, entrepreneurs, founders of key organizations, like the free library, Stern Grove, and the de Young Museum.” Attention to the lives of the women who wore, owned and donated these objects to be part of the de Young’s permanent collection is something that distinguishes Fashioning San Francisco from other fashion-oriented museum exhibitions.
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