28 November 2021

Annotation on 1 July 2022: Date of the lecture is 28 August 2022.
Annotation on 21 May 2022: The MK&G Hamburg published details of the July 2022 schedule of events such as the lecture 'Muslim fashion images in discourse. From stigma to mainstream?' by Laura Haddad on 14 July. The doctor  in cultural studies has researched the institutionalization of Islam and post-migrant everyday cultures. At the exhibition ‘Dressed. 7 women – 200 years of fashion’, Laura Haddad presents a video addressing the topics diversity in fashion and fashion bodies as places of social negotiation. At mkg-hamburg.de/en/events/laura-haddad-muslimische-modebilder-im-diskurs-vom-stigma-zum-mainstream, it’s announced that the lecture will focus on Muslim fashion images and debates about the impact of social categorizations on discrimination and the historical roots of valuation systems.


MKG Hamburg exhibition 'Dressed' follows role models, pioneers for telling the story of 200 years of fashion and emancipation embedded into social history with topics such as body norms (25 February until 28 August 2022)

The arts and crafts museum MKG Hamburg presented the programme 2022 with previews of exhibitions such as 'Dressed' about fashion and social changes over 200 years. For the exploration of society and especially the role of women, MKG uses as 'red thread' clothing and accessories worn by extraordinary women, role models in their times from the early 19th century until nowadays. Even when the presented women were according to the press release not selected after the criteria status or celebrity, the dramaturgical red thread is mainly a luxurious one as the clothing items are from the wardrobe of upper class women, avant-gardists, representatives of an elite and personalities of the emancipation history with the financial power to buy their couture at famous fashion houses like the House of Worth (Charles Frederick Worth is known as the 'father of haute couture'), the artist among the couturiers Elsa Schiaparelli, or Yves Saint Laurent who revolutionized haute couture by incorporating male attire into women's wear, keyword tuxedo or blazer. It's announced that around 150 clothing pieces and accessories from well-known ateliers, brands as well as anonymous tailors will tell together with biographical artefacts ranging from video interviews, photographs to documents the story of fashion and emancipation embedded into social history with topics such as the changes and discussions concerning body norms.

Elke Dröscher is one of the protagonists of the exhibition 'Dressed' on view from 25 February until 28 August 2022 at MKG Hamburg. Art collector Elke Dröscher founded 1968 the eponymous contemporary art gallery and in 1986 the doll museum 'Puppenmuseum Falkenstein' where visitors can explore the cultural history of Germany over three hundred years from the 18th until the 20th century with focus on lifestyle, fashion and beauty ."The history of dolls exemplifies both the development of fashion and the changes in our ideals of beauty," is the collection of the Puppenmuseum Falkenstein at https://www.elke-droescher.de/en/museum/thecollection/ introduced.

Image: Elke Dröscher (*1941), Sammlung Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008), Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Foto: Anne Schönharting.