Elizabeth Currie

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Dress and textile historian, lecturer at Central Saint Martins: https://independent.academia.edu/ElizabethCurrie

Book cover of 'Fashion in Theory' with a striking graphic black and white design - the title superimposed over a background of text
A row of hanging wool jackets in red, orange and yellow by designer Paul Smith
An embroidery of a queen with two attendants and a castle in the background. They are surrounded by small insects, birds and flowers.
Brightly coloured bodice and skirt printed in Jouy-en-Josas around 1790
Detail of the tapestry of The Healing of the Lame Man designed by Raphael, showing a kneeling man wearing a sleeveless linen tunic and holding a stick.
Two men and a woman playing music and a game of draughts seated around a table in a dark interior. They are wearing brightly coloured, striped clothing.
Detail of Saint Jerome's draped white linen tunic
A volcanic peak rises up behind extensive plains covered with lush vegetation. The buildings of a textile mill can be seen towards the horizon.
Detail of a portrait of Mary Curzon with an elaborately embroidered dress and ostrich feather fan.
Detail of a painting showing a man in civic robes in the foreground and a woman in the background, wearing everyday dress holding a distaff.
Detail of the skirt of a shimmering, gold embroidered dress by Chinese designer Guo Pei.
Detail from a large religious medieval embroidery showing creatures swimming in the waves and birds above them.
A bold red furnishing fabric by Marian Mahler, with multi-coloured abstract shapes strung together with thin lines.
Detail of a painting showing two young men wearing bright clothing and feathers. A Romani fortune teller is reading the palm of the man on the right.
Detail of a 14th-century brightly coloured Spanish textile with geometric pattern.
Print showing Summer Fashions at the Surrey Zoological Gardens in 1844.