Fashion is My Muse

Punk:Chaos to Couture at the Met Costume Institute Photo by Ingrid Mida 2013 Museums are my happy place and May is museum month! ...

Alexandra Kim: A Royal Presentation April is a busy month for art and fashion related events. Here are selected highlights on the cal...

Dear friends, It has been a while since I've posted here. After much of my blog was copied onto other sites, I lost some of the jo...

Not to be missed in the winter/spring of 2013 are the following exhibitions of fashion in the museum: Fashioning Fashion, European Dre...

I started blogging in 2008 and for the most part, it has been an incredible adventure. I attended exhibitions and events that I would not ne...

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...

It's been a while since I've dared to post a calendar as it seemed to be one of the most popular posts to be copied onto other sites...

Cover of Costume Journal Volume 42, Number 1 The Costume Journal is a bi-annual publication by the Costume Society of Ontario  that fe...

When one works in a cultural industry (perhaps as an artist, curator, web designer writer or designer), there is an element of precarity th...

" 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: ...