Elizabeth Currie
@ecurrie.bsky.social
Dress and textile historian, lecturer at Central Saint Martins: https://independent.academia.edu/ElizabethCurrie
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Elizabeth Currie
@ecurrie.bsky.social
· Dec 1
How Caravaggio Painted Class and Clothes
An excerpt from Elizabeth Currie's new book Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio.
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If you've ever wondered about the different kinds of clothing worn by the card players in Caravaggio's painting, 'Art in America' is featuring an extract about it from my book.
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I'll be talking about 'Street Style' on Thursday at Drinks with The Idler 🍻
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Book of the Week: Street Style | Idler
Historian Elizabeth Currie on art and clothing in the time of Caravaggio
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February 17, 2026 at 1:58 PM
I'll be talking about 'Street Style' on Thursday at Drinks with The Idler 🍻
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Job alert: several part time roles coming up on the team involved in delivering the 'Order an Object' service at V&A East Storehouse.
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Collections Access Officer - Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London
Collections Access Officers – Several part time roles, 3 x days p/w, requiring Saturday and Sunday working.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Job alert: several part time roles coming up on the team involved in delivering the 'Order an Object' service at V&A East Storehouse.
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📣 New publication in @manchesterup.bsky.social Studies in Design and Material Culture Series: 'Fashion in Theory' edited by Marco Pecorari
examining the meeting points between fashion and critical theory with a range of international contributors.
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examining the meeting points between fashion and critical theory with a range of international contributors.
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#fashionhistory
December 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
📣 New publication in @manchesterup.bsky.social Studies in Design and Material Culture Series: 'Fashion in Theory' edited by Marco Pecorari
examining the meeting points between fashion and critical theory with a range of international contributors.
🗃️🪡
#fashionhistory
examining the meeting points between fashion and critical theory with a range of international contributors.
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#fashionhistory
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Le colloque commence jeudi ! 'Mapping fashion savoir faire:craft, space and scale 16th-21st centuries' 11-13 dec.
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Mapping Fashion Savoir-Faire : Craft, Space and Scale 16th - 21st centuries | Sorbonne alliance
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December 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Le colloque commence jeudi ! 'Mapping fashion savoir faire:craft, space and scale 16th-21st centuries' 11-13 dec.
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It was fun to think about a few of my favourite books for this round up of #italianstudies on the New Books Network podcast.
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Catch up on our newsletter! Where in the World: Italy |
Scholarly Sources with Elizabeth Currie | Meet a Host with Jen Hoyer
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Scholarly Sources with Elizabeth Currie | Meet a Host with Jen Hoyer
Our newsletter is freely available so share it with a friend!
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Inside Italy
Italian Studies, Fashion History, and Library Science
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December 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
It was fun to think about a few of my favourite books for this round up of #italianstudies on the New Books Network podcast.
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Job announcement: part time, fixed term contract for a research assistant for a global Renaissance exhibition @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social Suitable for advanced doctoral candidates/early career applicants
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December 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Job announcement: part time, fixed term contract for a research assistant for a global Renaissance exhibition @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social Suitable for advanced doctoral candidates/early career applicants
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If you've ever wondered about the different kinds of clothing worn by the card players in Caravaggio's painting, 'Art in America' is featuring an extract about it from my book.
#fashionhistory
#earlymodern
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
#fashionhistory
#earlymodern
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
How Caravaggio Painted Class and Clothes
An excerpt from Elizabeth Currie's new book Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio.
www.artnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
If you've ever wondered about the different kinds of clothing worn by the card players in Caravaggio's painting, 'Art in America' is featuring an extract about it from my book.
#fashionhistory
#earlymodern
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
#fashionhistory
#earlymodern
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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Central Saint Martins is looking and smelling very woolly today with lots of talks, demonstrations + displays, part of the college's ongoing collaboration with British Wool.
#textilehistory
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#fashionhistory
November 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Central Saint Martins is looking and smelling very woolly today with lots of talks, demonstrations + displays, part of the college's ongoing collaboration with British Wool.
#textilehistory
#fashionhistory
#textilehistory
#fashionhistory
There's a 40% discount this weekend on my book 'Street Style' (and a great range of other titles!) in Reaktion Books Black Friday sale.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
There's a 40% discount this weekend on my book 'Street Style' (and a great range of other titles!) in Reaktion Books Black Friday sale.
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Someone really had fun with metal threads and wire here. Not content with a shiny dress, crown and sceptre, this very regal Esther has two attendants holding up her train and a parasol in a c. 1640 embroidery at The Holburne Museum, Bath.
#textilehistory
#fashionhistory
#textilehistory
#fashionhistory
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Someone really had fun with metal threads and wire here. Not content with a shiny dress, crown and sceptre, this very regal Esther has two attendants holding up her train and a parasol in a c. 1640 embroidery at The Holburne Museum, Bath.
#textilehistory
#fashionhistory
#textilehistory
#fashionhistory
The recently opened Fragonard Fashion and Costume Museum in Arles, with some beautifully displayed 18th-19th century outfits.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The recently opened Fragonard Fashion and Costume Museum in Arles, with some beautifully displayed 18th-19th century outfits.
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I've written a short piece for History Today about changing attitudes towards the poor in sixteenth-century Rome.
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Rome welcomed and tended to the vast numbers of pilgrims who arrived in the #16thcentury, but its attitude to its own poor could be very different.
🔓 Elizabeth Currie’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
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🔓 Elizabeth Currie’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
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Pilgrims and Poverty in Renaissance Rome
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November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I've written a short piece for History Today about changing attitudes towards the poor in sixteenth-century Rome.
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I enjoyed talking about soldiers, sumptuary laws and the second-hand trade in Rome for a recent episode of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I enjoyed talking about soldiers, sumptuary laws and the second-hand trade in Rome for a recent episode of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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Anni Albers' textiles are in the spotlight in an exhibition in Bern, moving onto Vienna next year, with an accompanying Yale University Press publication.
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Anni Albers.
Anni Albers (1889–1994) is one of the most important figures in the art and design of the 20th century. Her creative and experimental career began in the 1920s in the Bauhaus, where she took lessons w...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Anni Albers' textiles are in the spotlight in an exhibition in Bern, moving onto Vienna next year, with an accompanying Yale University Press publication.
#textilehistory
www.zpk.org/en/ausstellu...
#textilehistory
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I'll be in Oxford on 28 October talking about clothing and the poor in Rome for the Italian Early Modern World Seminar. This is their line up for the term:
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October 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I'll be in Oxford on 28 October talking about clothing and the poor in Rome for the Italian Early Modern World Seminar. This is their line up for the term:
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Part-time collections assistant post with English Heritage closing date 19 October.
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Collections Assistant
Heritage is for everybody, and we are here for heritage.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Part-time collections assistant post with English Heritage closing date 19 October.
#museumjobs
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#museumjobs
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On 20 November, I'm giving a lunchtime lecture at the V&A about my book Shoes and the Georgian Man. It's free, do come along!
#skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
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Lunchtime Lectures: Shoes and the Georgian Man - V&A Academy Talk at
V&A South Kensington · V&A
This talk is part of the free Lunchtime Lecture programme. No booking is required.
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October 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
On 20 November, I'm giving a lunchtime lecture at the V&A about my book Shoes and the Georgian Man. It's free, do come along!
#skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
#skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
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Some thoughts on Caravaggio's inventive representations of dress in a blog for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.
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Caravaggio and the Language of Dress | Reaktion Books
In this blog, author Elizabeth Currie talks about the subject of her new book, Street Style, Caravaggio, and his works in relation to the language of dress.
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October 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Some thoughts on Caravaggio's inventive representations of dress in a blog for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.
#earlymodern 🗃️🪡
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#earlymodern 🗃️🪡
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The Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan is displaying 120 outfits by Giorgio Armani. The show, which opened just weeks after his death, will run until 11 January.
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Giorgio Armani. Milano, per amore | Pinacoteca di Brera
To celebrate fifty years of creativity, the Pinacoteca di Brera presents its first-ever exhibition dedicated to the stylistic journey of Giorgio Armani, welcoming a curated selection of garments into ...
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October 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan is displaying 120 outfits by Giorgio Armani. The show, which opened just weeks after his death, will run until 11 January.
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The Museum of the Order of St John is hosting a launch event for my book on 22 October. I'll be talking about the paintings of Mattia Preti, dress, textiles and life in Malta in the seventeenth century.
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📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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October 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The Museum of the Order of St John is hosting a launch event for my book on 22 October. I'll be talking about the paintings of Mattia Preti, dress, textiles and life in Malta in the seventeenth century.
🗃️🪡 #earlymodern
📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-matti...
🗃️🪡 #earlymodern
📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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If you're in Cambridge next Thursday I'll be talking about my new book for the Early Modern World Seminar - they have a great line up this term!
#earlymodern
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Early Modern World History | Faculty of History University of Cambridge
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October 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If you're in Cambridge next Thursday I'll be talking about my new book for the Early Modern World Seminar - they have a great line up this term!
#earlymodern
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
#earlymodern
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I'll be talking to Caravaggio expert Helen Langdon about the artist's varied sources of inspiration at the National Gallery next Monday.
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Caravaggio's world: Elizabeth Currie and Helen Langdon in conversation | Events | National Gallery, London
Two art historians discuss Caravaggio's world on his birthday.
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September 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I'll be talking to Caravaggio expert Helen Langdon about the artist's varied sources of inspiration at the National Gallery next Monday.
#earlymodern
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#earlymodern
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The Barbican's first fashion show in eight years opens next week: 'Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion'.
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Dirty Looks | Barbican
Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion.
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September 20, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The Barbican's first fashion show in eight years opens next week: 'Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion'.
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www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
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A great opportunity to get close up to some fifteenth-century printed books at this short talk at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Monday.
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National Art Library and Archive talks (Monday at 11.30 except Bank Holidays) - Talk at
V&A South Kensington · V&A
Join National Art Library and V&A Archive staff each Monday for a short talk on an item of their choosing. Museum visitors will encounter some extraordinary collection items and experience the Victori...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
A great opportunity to get close up to some fifteenth-century printed books at this short talk at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Monday.
#earlymodern
www.vam.ac.uk/event/yO4oRy...
#earlymodern
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