New Zealand Fashion Museum facts for kids
| Established | 2010 |
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| Location | New Zealand |
The New Zealand Fashion Museum is a special museum in New Zealand that you can visit online! It started in 2010. A talented fashion designer and historian named Doris de Pont had the idea to create it.
This museum is a charity. It holds "pop-up" exhibitions in different places around New Zealand. It also works as an online museum. The museum borrows items from public and private collections to create its shows. It has featured clothes from famous designers like Liz Findlay and Margi Robertson.
What is a Pop-Up Exhibition?
The museum's first pop-up exhibition was called Looking Terrific – the Story of El Jay. Doris de Pont helped put this show together. It displayed over 50 old clothes from a New Zealand fashion leader named Gus Fisher. His fashion label was called El Jay.
The exhibition was held at the Gus Fisher Gallery in Auckland. Later, it moved to Wellington. There, a store called Kirkcaldie and Stains hosted the clothes. This was special because Kirkcaldie and Stains used to sell El Jay clothes for 50 years!
Recent Exhibitions
In 2018, the museum put together a show about 100 years of summer fashion. It was a cool way to see how swimwear and summer clothes changed over time.
In 2019, the museum worked with the Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery in Titirangi. They created an exhibition called Moana Currents: Dressing Aotearoa Now. This show explored how people dress in New Zealand today.
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