Zee JLF 2018 | Three new ways of looking at fashion

"Fashion and Modernity", a session on the last day of ZeeJLF, focussed on three new ways of looking at fashion that away from the usual glamour-designer narrative.

Italian curator Paola Antonelli spoke about her exhibition, "Is Fashion Modern?", at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in which she had showcased 111 objects, among them a sari and the burkini and bikini, juxtaposed next to each other. "In the 1940s, the first women who modelled the bikini were striptease artists," she said.

Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, editor and publisher of Vestoj a platform of critical writing on fashion, said, "I wanted to bring a more analytical way of looking at fashion through the lens of anthropology, sociology, philosophy, art history, etc,"