Fashion Follows Form
Designs for Sitting
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About
Fashion Follows Form: Designs for Sitting is an exhibition that invites visitors to think critically about the relationship between function and fashion in our daily lives. The history of western fashion is a sequence of changing shapes that often favours form over function and comfort. IZAdaptive (2009-present), by Canadian designer Izzy Camilleri, is a revolutionary line of fashionable and functional clothing for the growing demographic of men and women who use wheelchairs. The exhibit contextualizes these innovative garments within Camilleri’s oeuvre and historical 18th-19th century fashions also designed for a seated, L-shaped frame.
Fashion Follows Form (June 21, 2014 to January 25, 2015)
Highlights
Fashion Follows Winning Form
ROM’s Fashion Follows Form exhibition has won The Richard Martin Exhibition Award by unanimous decision. One of the jurors referred to the exhibition theme as one of “social justice and human rights.” The exhibition’s text was also recognized as beautifully written and respectful of the audience.
Izzy Camilleri
Fashion Designer
Alexandra Palmer
Senior Curator
Honorary Exhibition Chairs
Jeanne Beker
TV personality, columnist
Barbara Turnbull
Activist, journalist
Exhibition Contributors
Maayan Ziv
Photographer
Luke Anderson
Engineer
Joel Dembe
Paralympian
Carolyn Pioro
Writer/editor
Joanne Smith
Nutritionist
Russell Winkelaar
Actor
Partners & Sponsors
Exhibition Patron
Elizabeth Tory
Media Partner
Centennial Government Partners
Ontario
OCAF: Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund
