Professor Judith Clark
Title
Professor of Fashion and Museology
College
London College of Fashion
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Researcher Research
Biography
Judith is one of the two co-founders of the Centre for Fashion Curation (CfFC) and is internationally recognised across academia, museums, galleries, industry and the press. She has curated major exhibitions at the V&A in London, Mode Museum in Antwerp, Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam and Palazzo Pitti, Florence.Recent exhibitions include The Concise Dictionary of Dress (with Adam Phillips) at Blythe House, London, commissioned by Artangel; and Diana Vreeland after Diana Vreeland at Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, and Chloe. Attitudes (Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2012).
In July 2012 she opened the first museum of Handbags in Seoul, South Korea, documented in a publication Handbags: The making of a Museum (Yale University Press). Recently published with Yale University Press is Exhibiting Fashion: Before and After 1971, co-authored with Amy de la Haye.
My research looks at the relationship between fashion history and theory and exhibition-making. I am continuing experimental curatorial work carried out since 1997 at the Judith Clark Costume Gallery and have more recently applied those ideas to museum space/scale.
Research Outputs
Art/Design item
- Clark J. Cristóbal Balenciaga. Fashion and Heritage. Contexts (2019)
Article
- de la Haye A, Clark J. One Object: Multiple Interpretations (2008)
Book
- Clark J, de la Haye A. Exhibiting Fashion: Before and After 1971 (2014)
- Clark J, Frisa ML. Diana Vreeland after Diana Vreeland (2012)
- Clark J. Handbags: The Making of a Museum (2012)
- Clark J, Phillips A. The concise dictionary of dress (book) (2010)
Book Section
- Clark J. On Attributes and Exhibition Making (2017)
- Clark J. The world of Hussein Chalayan (2011)
- Clark J. Restyling History: Diana Vreeland at the Costume Institute (2011)
- Bowles H, Bolton A, Menkes S, Martin P, Piaggi A, Clark J. Stephen Jones and the accent of fashion (2010)
Show/Exhibition
- Clark J. Fashion Inside and Out, part of the Homo Faber: Crafting a More Human Future (2018)
- Clark J. Exhibiting Niklaus Manuel Deutsch: The Judgement of Paris II, Amden Atelier (2018)
- Clark J. Conversations: Cristobal Balenciaga Museum (2018)
- Clark J. Frida Kahlo: Appearances may be Deceiving, Museo Frida Kahlo (2018)
- Clark J. Femininities: Guy Bourdin, Maison Chloe and Chloe Girls: The Anthology A-Z installation (2017)
- Clark J. The Vulgar (2016)
- Clark J. La Galerie, Louis Vuitton, Asnières (2015)
- Clark J. The Fashion Project, Bal Harbour, Miami (2015)
- Moloney A, de la Haye A, Clark J, Debo K, Norton J, Athanasopoulou K, Hess B, Van Beirendonck W, Schuller M. 1914 Now: four perspectives on fashion curation (2014)
- Clark J. Chloé. Attitudes (2012)
- Clark J. Simone Handbag Museum (2012)
- Clark J, Frisa ML. Diana Vreeland After Diana Vreeland (2012)
- Clark J. Washed Up (2011)
- Clark J, Phillips A. The concise dictionary of dress (2010)
- de la Haye A, Clark J. Carnaby Street 1960-2010 (2010)
- Clark J. Alchemy: Contemporary British Jewellery Design (2007)
- Rees D, Clark J. Carapace (2006)
- Clark J, Stoppini L, Gray R. Anna Piaggi: Fashion-ology (2006)
- Clark J. Malign Muses: When Fashion Turns Back (2004)
Teaching
Current research students
- Antonios Daikos, Re/Load: Fashion and the Gender-neutral Dream. (Lead supervisor)
- Circe Ellison, Deviant Muses: De-stigmatization of Disability, Through Fashion, Dress and Identity (Lead supervisor)
- Jeffrey Horsley, Embedding the Personal: the construction of a 'fashion autobiography' as a museum exhibition, informed by innovative practice and ModeMuseum, Antwerp. (Lead supervisor)
- Lisa Mason, Dress based superstitions: rituals, myths and practical wisdom; a practice based investigation of exhibition maklng through superstitions and their relationships with dress. (Lead supervisor)
- Susan Postlethwaite, Making through critical thinking: sustainable fashion practice as research to inform fashion teaching / The developing & sharing of fashion futures – making through thinking. (Lead supervisor)
- Jennifer Rossi-Camus, Curating the Fashion Victim: Establishing Strategies for Exhibition-Making towards the Presentation of Fashion and Humour in Museums and Galleries. (Lead supervisor)
- Maria Jose Sacchetti, Minimal aesthetic: The relationships between fashion and retail architecture in New York and Paris, from 1964 to the present day. (Lead supervisor)
- Shirley Van De Polder, Liminal Affections, or a practice-led exploration on the influence of encounters in the in-between: shapes of associative thinking in 20th and 21st century European and American art, curation, film, literature and theatre (Lead supervisor)