Elizabeth Currie

Job alert: several part time roles coming up on the team involved in delivering the 'Order an Object' service at V&A East Storehouse.
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Book cover of 'Fashion in Theory' with a striking graphic black and white design - the title superimposed over a background of text

📣 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.
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Mapping Fashion Savoir-Faire : Craft, Space and Scale 16th - 21st centuries | Sorbonne alliance

Le colloque commence jeudi ! 'Mapping fashion savoir faire:craft, space and scale 16th-21st centuries' 11-13 dec.
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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.

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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
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How Caravaggio Painted Class and Clothes An excerpt from Elizabeth Currie's new book Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio.

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.
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A row of hanging wool jackets in red, orange and yellow by designer Paul Smith

Colourful samples of woven wool by students at Central Saint Martins, London

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.
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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.

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An embroidery of a queen with two attendants and a castle in the background. They are surrounded by small insects, birds and flowers.

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.
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Brightly coloured bodice and skirt printed in Jouy-en-Josas around 1790

Orange-red sack-back gown, matching stomacher and petticoat, c. 1770

Brown day dress printed with yellow diamonds made of glazed cotton with a ruffled shirt collar (reconstructed) c. 1815

The recently opened Fragonard Fashion and Costume Museum in Arles, with some beautifully displayed 18th-19th century outfits.
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I've written a short piece for History Today about changing attitudes towards the poor in sixteenth-century Rome.

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Elizabeth Currie, Podcast Episode · New Books Network · 11/02/2025 · 38m

I enjoyed talking about soldiers, sumptuary laws and the second-hand trade in Rome for a recent episode of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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Anni Albers. Anni Albers (1889–1994) is one of the most important figures in the art and design of the 20th century. Her creative and experimental career began in the 1920s in the Bauhaus, where she took lessons w...

Anni Albers' textiles are in the spotlight in an exhibition in Bern, moving onto Vienna next year, with an accompanying Yale University Press publication.
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Detail of the tapestry of The Healing of the Lame Man designed by Raphael, showing a kneeling man wearing a sleeveless linen tunic and holding a stick.

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:
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Collections Assistant Heritage is for everybody, and we are here for heritage.

Part-time collections assistant post with English Heritage closing date 19 October.
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Lunchtime Lectures: Shoes and the Georgian Man - V&A Academy Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A This talk is part of the free Lunchtime Lecture programme. No booking is required.

On 20 November, I'm giving a lunchtime lecture at the V&A about my book Shoes and the Georgian Man. It's free, do come along!
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Caravaggio and the Language of Dress | Reaktion Books In this blog, author Elizabeth Currie talks about the subject of her new book, Street Style, Caravaggio, and his works in relation to the language of dress.

Some thoughts on Caravaggio's inventive representations of dress in a blog for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.

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Giorgio Armani. Milano, per amore | Pinacoteca di Brera To celebrate fifty years of creativity, the Pinacoteca di Brera presents its first-ever exhibition dedicated to the stylistic journey of Giorgio Armani, welcoming a curated selection of garments into ...

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.
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Two men and a woman playing music and a game of draughts seated around a table in a dark interior. They are wearing brightly coloured, striped clothing.

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.
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📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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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!
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AI analysis finds £71,000 painting dismissed as copy is a Caravaggio Exclusive: Study gives 85.7% probability Badminton House version of The Lute Player is by 17th-century master

Another AI triumph
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I'll be talking to Caravaggio expert Helen Langdon about the artist's varied sources of inspiration at the National Gallery next Monday.

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Dirty Looks | Barbican Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion.

The Barbican's first fashion show in eight years opens next week: 'Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion'.
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National Art Library and Archive talks (Monday at 11.30 except Bank Holidays) - Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A Join National Art Library and V&A Archive staff each Monday for a short talk on an item of their choosing. Museum visitors will encounter some extraordinary collection items and experience the Victori...

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.
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It does look a bit opinionated

Detail of Saint Jerome's draped white linen tunic

Saint Jerome seated opposite a lion with a thorn in his paw in a rocky landscape by Giovanni Bellini, c. 1455

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.
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Looking forward to this talk at The Wallace Collection - an event linked to their Caravaggio display opening in November.
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Women in Print An exhibition exploring the evolving influence and status of women in textiles over the past 150 years, through the lens of Liberty Fabrics.

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
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