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\nTo label Women’s History Museum<\/a> as simply a fashion brand would be a wholly restraining statement. The design collective headed by Amanda McGowan and Rivkah Barringer has dabbled in performance art as well as politics, meanwhile addressing themes of femininity, diversity and gender fluidity in a largely anti-fashion manner. To top off the list, last year they produced a zine with London-based publisher and dominatrix Reba Maybury<\/a>. The thing which really pisses them off about mainstream fashion is the common ‘exploitation disguised as innovation.’ With designers left, right and centre, fleeing the New York Fashion Week schedule (Rodarte and Proenza Schouler to name a few), Women’s History Museum appear as part of the fortuitous antidote to, what could otherwise become a\u00a0barren capitalist landscape of American fashion.<\/p>\n

“We began WHM as an expression of our friendship and from a desire to create fashion objects and representations that were not available at the time”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“Our clothes give the impression of a heightened sense of delicacy framed by the actual rebelliousness of the subjects who wear our work”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nHaving met in college at NYU, neither McGowan nor Barringer studied fashion, resulting in the authentic DIY appearance of the collective’s sculptural garments. Hints of traditional lace peep out underneath chiffon cloaks while a mash-up of glittered sequins paired with vintage graphic images form the outer layer of a handbag. It is precisely this irregularity and unpredictability that provides the charm of the off-kilter label \u2013 with Women’s History Museum you are sure to see something that you haven’t before.
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\nDolls are of constant inspiration to the pair due to the seemingly endless possibilities to construct and deconstruct the notion of stereotypical femininity. Keeping in line with the rise of ethical fashion, the collective often repurposes old garments and utilises vintage materials while bringing their creations to life. With their fourth presentation under their belt, the clothes fill a Meadham Kirchoff <\/a>\u00a0shaped-gap in fashion, with the aesthetic of the pair’s endless muse, Courtney Love during her Hole<\/a> heyday, of course. With an output that’s as original as it is rare, cue the fantastical world of the Women’s History Museum.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NYC based collective eschewing traditional fashion in favour of DIY, femininity and gender fluidity<\/p>","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":55240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[9098,4802,9099,9100,5308,2277,2949,8224,9101,9102],"class_list":["post-55078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion","tag-amanda-mcgowan","tag-courtney-love","tag-design-collective","tag-gender-fluidity","tag-hole","tag-meadham-kirchoff","tag-nyc","tag-reba-maybury","tag-rivkah-barringer","tag-womens-history-museum"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe NYC Collective Shunning Traditional Fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NYC based collective Women's History Museum have proven themselves as much more than your average designers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/womens-history-museum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The NYC Collective Shunning Traditional Fashion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NYC based collective Women's History Museum have proven themselves as much more than your average designers.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/womens-history-museum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-08-07T11:00:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Violet Conroy\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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