Exhibiting Transformative Fashion: Digital Interventions to Enhance Display and Interpretation

Abstract

While the issues of displaying fashion in motion in museum exhibitions have been addressed with various interventions to animate displays, the challenge of successfully presenting transformative fashion in exhibitions has received less attention. With more contemporary designers creating conceptual fashion that is transformative and technological in nature, this article discusses a research project that proposes a series of digital interventions to best display these garments. With the use of digital technology in fashion exhibitions becoming commonplace, this article aims to explore this application and the ways in which it can be used to greater effect to enhance the performance of transformation in the presentation of fashion. The use of digital technology to improve and advance opportunities for inclusivity and accessibility in reading fashion in exhibitions will also be demonstrated.