Join Africa Fashion curator and Senior Curator African and Diaspora Textiles and Fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dr. Christine Checinska for an introduction of Africa Fashion, as part of the exhibition’s opening day programs.
Speakers
Dr Christine Checinska is the V&A’s inaugural Senior Curator African and Diaspora Textiles and Fashion for the Africa Fashion exhibition, spanning from July 2022 to April 2023. Before joining the V&A, Christine worked as a womenswear designer, academic, artist, and curator. Her creative practice and research explore the relationship between fashion, culture, and race. Christine’s recent exhibitions include an intervention for Makers Eye: Stories of Craft from July to October 2021 at the Crafts Council Gallery, and Folded Life in February 2021 at the Johanne Jacobs Museum in Zurich, Switzerland. Her recent publications include Re-Fashioning African Diasporic Masculinities in Fashion and Postcolonial Critique, edited by Elke Gaugele and Monica Titton (2019). In 2016, she delivered the TEDxTalk Disobedient Dress: Fashion as Everyday Activism. With over thirty years of experience in the industry, Christine has created womenswear collections for iconic British brands such as Margaret Howell, where she served as a Senior Designer during the late 1990s.
Includes a Q&A with Sabina McKenna.
Sabina McKenna is an Australian writer and curator of Nigerian-Irish heritage. She is the creator of The Where are you from? Project, a photojournalistic series about cultural identity. Sabina writes predominantly in interview style and has been featured widely in local and international publications including The Big Issue, Art Almanac, Broadsheet, Fashion Journal, i-D, G-IRL (London) and Hopes&Fears (NYC). Sabina is frequently involved with a range of initiatives and institutions as a speaker and facilitator. Her exhibition, FAM (2023-24), featured a large-scale installation of 15 photojournalistic works, at Immigration Museum, aiming to destigmatise and prioritise conversations about race and family.
This program is apart of Africa Fashion Opening Day.
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