I am a fashion curator and historian, whose background in theatrical design informs my approach to fashion storytelling. I am an Associate Lecturer at UAL, delivering lectures and supporting student research projects at Central Saint Martins, London College of Fashion and Chelsea.
I have curated fashion exhibitions including T-Shirt: Cult, Culture Subversion (Fashion & Textile Museum / Civic Barnsley), Fashion & Freedom (14-18 Now, Manchester Art Gallery) and Women, Fashion, Power (Design Museum, London). My most recent exhibition, Staten Island Mode, was a collaborative dress ethnography project that explored diversity and self-expression in New York City’s "forgotten borough".
I hold a PhD and an MA in fashion curation from the Centre for Fashion Curation at UAL London College of Fashion. My practice-based doctoral research examined fashion graphic satire and developed a proposal for a site-responsive fashion exhibition at Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. The research also revived the 18th century bibliographic practice of extra-illustration as a method for presenting a curatorial narrative. My current research is focused on Egyptian revival in dress from the middle of the 20th century to the present day and combines material culture and oral history approaches to offer new insights into the phenomenon of “Egyptomania” that address the personal meanings attributed to garments and jewellery that bear ancient Egyptian motifs.