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SUMMARY:Dressing the Goddesses: Wardrobe Departments in the Silent Era
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center
DESCRIPTION:Dressing the Goddesses: Wardrobe Departments in the Silent EraA
  lecture by Emma Cormack (BGC)Wednesday\, October 28\, 202638 West 86th St
 reet\, Lecture Hallgallery@bgc.bard.edu$15 General | $12 Seniors | Free fo
 r people associated with a college or university\, people with museum ID\,
  people with disabilities and caregivers\, and BGC membersNo late seating
 \; admittance is not guaranteed after 6 pm.The stunning garments worn on t
 he silent-era silver screen relied on thousands of workers—primarily wom
 en—who labored in Hollywood studio wardrobe departments. While some film
 -worn garments from the silent era survive today\, the names of the employ
 ees who created them typically went unrecorded. Drawing on archival footag
 e\, period press coverage\, and photographs from wardrobe departments in N
 ew York and Hollywood\, Goddesses in the Machine cocurator Emma Cormack wi
 ll explore the critical role that these women played in the emerging studi
 o system. She will also spotlight a durational project that accompanies th
 e exhibition: BGC doctoral students Sydney Maresca (a costume designer) an
 d Jaya Misra (a textile conservator) are reconstructing two film-worn gown
 s from 1921 and 1926—both on display in BGC’s Gallery—in order to pr
 oduce new knowledge about the garments\, their designers\, and the makers.
 Emma Cormack (BGC MA 2018) is associate curator for exhibitions and Study 
 Collection curator at Bard Graduate Center. With a background in decorativ
 e arts\, design history\, and material culture\, her research specialties 
 include the history of fashion and textiles with a particular interest in 
 department stores\, consumer culture\, and print advertising in late ninet
 eenth- and early twentieth-century France and the United States. At BGC\, 
 she was the cocurator of Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. 
 Gallen (2022–23) and coeditor of the accompanying publication\; assistan
 t curator of French Fashion\, Women\, and the First World War (2019–20)
 \; and curatorial and editorial assistant for Eileen Gray (2020). With Mic
 helle Finamore\, she is cocurator and coeditor of Goddesses in the Machine
 : Fashion in American Silent Film (2026).Gallery Visits with BGC Educators
 Drop by the exhibition Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silen
 t Film at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery between 5 and 6 pm at no extra 
 charge! Gallery educators will be stationed throughout the exhibition to s
 hare a few highlights.October 2818 West 86th Street\, New York5–6 pmImag
 e: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer\, Vine Street\, Hollywood\, wardrobe department\, 1
 925. Marc Wanamaker/Bison Archives.\n\nBoletos: https://www.simpletix.com/
 e/dressing-the-goddesses-wardrobe-department-tickets-289315
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