Curation #SPKmuseum on Tumblr
Every month Europeana Fashion Tumblr invites its partner to curate its tumblr page. This November, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin showed in our Tumblr page a selection of pieces taken from its newly acquired collection.
Evening dress by Cristòbal Balenciaga, made of rose red silk in tabby weave, Paris, Spring-Summer 1955. Collection Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin. Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, Photo: Stephan Klonk
“Fashion-Art-Works” is the title of the newly opened fashion gallery at the Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum. For the first time, a Berlin museum is featuring three centuries of European Fashion history in a permanent exhibition, with 130 men’s and women’s dresses and just as many accessories from hat to shoe.
A requirement for this project, unique not only in Berlin but in all of northern Germany, was the purchase of the Kamer/Ruf collection named after the two former owners. Its acquisition in 2003 allowed the Kunstgewerbemuseum to replace its rich inventory of garments that was almost entirely destroyed by the end of World War II. This extensive accession documents 300 years of European fashion history with exceptional objects from the arts of textiles and clothing. In all it contains 1572 items, among them 720 pieces of women’s, men’s and children’s apparel and 852 accessories, from hat to shoe, including men’s and women’s undergarments.
The tumblr selection characterises the masterful quality of each object, be it a unique specimen or a piece of clothing produced in a small-scale series. It is always an item distinguished by a trend-setting concept, executed with the highest artisanal prowess.
See the complete selection on Tumblr. For more information about the exhibition, please visit Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin page.