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Wild and Rare: Fashion and Endangered Species

Start Date 06 October 2016
End Date 18 December 2016
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Lisa Cox
various garments on display in a vitrine

Exhibition exploring the uncomfortable tension between fashion and nature by examining the historical use of wild and rare species in fashion across the 19th and 20th centuries. Guest Curator Lisa Cox, Barker Veterinary Museum, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph.

Image credit: Fashion History Museum.