Fashion is often seen as a business, but you bring it into a museum setting. What are the parallels between fine art and fashion?

Both are visual languages that tell stories about identity, politics, culture, and history. At SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion & Film, we present garments as cultural artifacts, objects that hold memory, craftsmanship, and imagination. Fashion, like fine art, reflects the human condition. Both art and fashion also exist within market systems. However, fashion is more accessible and ubiquitous in daily life than art, so it may feel more commercial to the average person, but the art market is certainly a vital part of that eco system.

Ultimately, they are both forms of material culture that store meaning and, over time, become records of who we were and how we lived.

What’s your favorite piece in your closet?

My prized fashion possession is a pair of hot pink satin Tom Ford pointed toe pumps with a gold heel and bow accent. I usually find one occasion a year to wear them.

What’s your favorite pastime?

Reading and looking at art. Whether I’m in Atlanta, Paris, LA or New York, I carve out time to be in museums and galleries. My children find it annoying but for me it’s expansive and introspective at the same time.

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