"Bags: Inside Out" Online Talk and Tour, V&A, 16th June 2021

FRN online lunchtime event:
Wednesday 16th June 2021, 1-2pm GMT

Bags: Inside Out (9th December 2020 - 16th January 2022) examines the function, status and craftsmanship of bags, objects which paradoxically project bold statements to the outside world whilst concealing our most treasured belongings. This thematic exhibition explores the worldwide heritage of these highly covetable accessories through 300 objects varying in scale from tiny purses held on a fingertip to luxurious travel trunks, spanning Elizabethan England to Contemporary China. Interrupted by the lockdown, the exhibition reopens on 19th May and tickets can be directly purchased here.

The exhibition's curator, Dr Lucia Savi, will be giving a behind-the-scenes peek at the research and preparation of the exhibition on 16th June for the Fashion Research Network, and will conclude with a tour of the show.

Free and open to all. Register here.

Dr Lucia Savi is the curator of exhibition Bags: Inside Out at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She is a curator and fashion historian specialising in twentieth-century textiles, fashion and design with a focus on Italy. In 2019, Lucia was awarded her PhD from Kingston University, London. She has more than 10 years experience in curating, publishing and lecturing. Previously she worked as Research Assistant on the Victoria and Albert Museum’s exhibitions Shoes: Pleasure and Pain (2015/2016), The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945-2014 (2014), and at the Courtauld Gallery on the exhibition Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshop 1913-19 (2009).