Making Museums Fashion Forward and Forward Thinking: A Proposal for a Rotating Exhibit Program at the Levi Strauss & Co. Museum

<p>This capstone project is a theoretical proposal for a rotating exhibit program that was developed for the Levi Strauss & Co. museum in San Francisco, California. It was conceived with the intent to help eradicate some of the stigmas associated with museum fashion exhibitions. This capstone explores the complicated history of the museum field’s relationship with fashion and analyzes some of the social justice issues that the fashion and textile industries face today. The project’s purpose is to demonstrate that museum fashion exhibitions are more than frivolous window displays in a museum setting and that they have the ability to educate visitors about complex global issues.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in Museum Studies

Level thesis:degree_level

Project/Capstone - Global access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Museum Studies

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Somerville, Hannah Claire

Contributors dc:contributor

• Stephanie A. Brown

• museum studies
• fashion
• textiles
• social justice
• sustainability
• exhibit design
• Levi Strauss & Co.
• denim
• jeans
• Arts and Humanities

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/475

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1499