Fashion Thinkers 2: Jonathan Faiers in conversation with Oriole Cullen Event

About the speaker

For over 20 years Oriole Cullen, Senior Curator of Textiles and Fashion at the Victoria & Albert Musuem, London has been instrumental in shaping the landscape of contemporary fashion curation. The list of exhibitions that Oriole has worked on, including Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950, Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones, The London Look: Fashion from Street to Catwalk and the long running Fashion in Motion presentations, is a testament to the central position she occupies in fashion curation today.

Fresh from her recent triumph, the critically acclaimed blockbuster exhibition Gabrielle Chanel: A Fashion Manifesto, join Oriole for the second in the WSA Exchange Fashion Thinkers as she shares her thoughts with Jonathan Faiers on the importance of fashion for the future of museums, the rise of the star curator, fashion as communication, millinery, fashion illustration and much, much more!

Fashion Thinkers Series

Fashion Thinkers is a new initiative curated by Professor Jonathan Faiers and the Fashion & Textiles Department at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

Fashion and textiles are central to an understanding of global culture and are one of the most inclusive and effective channels through which today’s most urgent questions can be debated and assumptions challenged.

Fashion Thinkers invites some of today’s most creative, challenging and inspiring designers, artists, curators, writers and makers to discuss what fashion means to them. Instinctually interdisciplinary, inclusive and sustainable, these Fashion Thinkers are united by their belief in the power of clothing and textiles to encourage new ways of thinking, making and being.

Beginning with trailblazing designer and radical Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY on February 22nd, the project continues with Oriole Cullen curator of the V&A’s blockbuster exhibition Gabrielle Chanel Fashion Manifesto on 19th March, and on April 25th Nicholas Daley, menswear designer and curator celebrated for his exploration of cultural identities, will be Fashion Thinking at WSA.

Guests can join this event in person at Winchester School of Art Campus, University of Southampton.

We encourage guests who wish to register at your earliest opportunity as spaces are strictly limited.

If you have any questions about this event please contact wsaexchange@soton.ac.uk.