How Fashion Exhibitions Became Laboratories for Interdisciplinary Thinking

Iris van Herpen, Dress, from the Morphogenesis Sensory Seas collection, 2020. Laser-cut and screen-printed mesh, duchesse satin and laser-cut Plexiglas. Collaborator: Philip Beesley. Model: Yue Han.

The Brooklyn Museum’s senior curator of fashion and material culture Matthew Yokobosky explains how treating fashion as art can reveal the relationships between human and machine, between microscopic structures and universal forms and between natural phenomena and manufactured mediums.

How Fashion Exhibitions Became Laboratories for Interdisciplinary Thinking