We discuss the ways clothes feel versus the way they look, and Autograph’s brilliant Omar Victor Diop exhibition. See links below.
Fanshawe mantua at Museum of London (1753): https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/85096.html
Lynn Sorge-English, Stays and Body Image in London: The Staymaking Trade, 1680-1810 (2011): https://www.routledge.com/Stays-and-Body-Image-in-London-The-Staymaking-Trade-16801810/Sorge-English/p/book/9781138661424
Daniel Miller, Mukulika Banerjee, The Sari (2008): https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-sari-9781847883148/
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, De l'utilité de la crinoline pour frauder l'octroi (1857), Art Institute of Chicago: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/84651
Omar Victor Diop at Autograph (2018): https://autograph.org.uk/exhibitions/liberty-diaspora
Omar Victor Diop website: https://www.omarviktor.com/
Omar Victor Diop interviewed for Paris Photo (2016): https://vimeo.com/190321094
Omar Victor Diop at Design Indaba (2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auWl6z733O4
Arpita Shah at Autograph: https://autograph.org.uk/exhibitions/purdah-the-sacred-cloth
Arpita Shah website: http://arpitashah.com/