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Enriching Fashion: An Eye for Detail

Start Date 17 September 2010
End Date August 2011
Venue TE PAPA TONGAREWA (MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND)
Location Wellington, New Zealand

Distinctive, exquisite details in fashion bring clothes and accessories to life. Te Papa’s textile collections reveal both the complexity and the simplicity of details in dress – bold prints, intricate beading, meticulous embroidery, extravagant ruffles, feathers, furs – delighting and surprising us.

Browse the themes below to see garments and accessories enriched with these details which are also displayed in Enriching Fashion: an eye for detail in the Eyelights Gallery on level 4 from 17 September 2010 until August 2011.