Fashion is My Muse

Creative Process Journal Diary Page by Ingrid Mida 2012 When I began this project, I undertook to explore: 1. How to portray the frag...

All is Vanity Photo by Ingrid Mida 2010 The simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is truth that hides the fact that there is no...

" The whole world is passed through the filter of the culture industry ". (Horkheimer and Adorno) Frankfurt School theorists ...

Photo of Walter Benjamin in 1939 by Gisela Freund " Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: ...

Cabinet Card Ryerson Fashion Research Collection One of the most tangible links between clothing and memory exists in the portrait pho...

To single out the moment of waking something that was asleep: All creation is a repetition of that moment. A repetition of fragments....To c...

Cristóbal Balenciaga: Collectionneur de modes  Although design ideas can come from anywhere, historical archives can be ri...

Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci When you visit a museum exhibition, do you ever think about what is not there? Do you notice when your ...

In practice-led research, self-reflection is an integral part of the research process. The act of stepping back from creative practice to...

McQueen's Raven Dress made of 2000 raven feathers Photo by Solve Sundbro Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2011 Andrew B...

When I discovered this beautiful ultramarine blue bodice in an unmarked bin in the Ryerson Fashion Research Collection on Friday aftern...

From a curatorial perspective, finding a narrative from among the hundreds of dresses in the Ryerson Fashion Research Collection that come...

This past week, I've been documenting some of my reading on curatorial process, teasing out the fragments of how curators come up with e...

Judith Clark's curatorial work is so rich and so vibrant that I want to read anything I can find about her process. Although the articl...

Pretentious from The Concise Dictionary of Dress Photo by Julian Abrams 2010 Judith Clark is a curator of fashion exhibitions that are...

The Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language 1994 edition gives the following definition for curator: 1. t...

Beginning the first page, post or sketch is the hardest part... and this post marks the beginning of my latest creative project: Memories of...

My Double (Work in Progress) by Ingrid Mida 2012 This is the doll that I have decided is my double. I found her in Paris and she is norm...

Untitled by Valerie Belin, 1997 This dress, stuffed with archival tissue, is from a series of works by French photographer Valerie Bel...

Museum in a Box (My Mother/Myself Series) by Ingrid Mida 2012 Through my process work for this creative project, I took a journey of sur...