Top left and background: Frans Pourbus II Portrait of Louis XIII, King of France as a boy c. 1616 (detail), The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William May Garland. Photo © Museum Associates / LACMA; Centre: Alexander McQueen Look 30 (detail), from the Dante collection, autumn–winter 1996–97, Christ Church, London, 1996. Photo © Robert Fairer © Alexander McQueen. Model: Kristen McMenamy; Bottom: Alexander McQueen Look 15 (detail), from the Horn of Plenty collection, autumn–winter 2009–10, Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, 10 March 2009. Photo © Robert Fairer © Alexander McQueen. Model: Kamila Filipcikova

MUSINGS ON McQUEEN: McQUEEN’S MANY INFLUENCES, 2PM

From cinema, music and nature to references to history and place – discover McQueen’s many influences and explore how these were incorporated into his work. ​

Host

Glynis Traill-Nash is one of Australia’s most respected and experienced fashion writers and commentators. For two decades, her engaging, informative – and opinionated – writing has endeared her to readers, most recently at The Australian where she was Fashion Editor for 10 years. She has held similar roles at the Sunday Telegraph, In Style, Grazia and The Sun-Herald, and written for titles including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and The Sydney Morning Herald.

With a suitcase always (appropriately) packed, Glynis has traversed the globe in the name of fashion, from Paris haute couture to New York, London and Milan Fashion Weeks, from Copenhagen to Tokyo, Darwin to Dallas, Berlin to Bendigo and beyond. She is a coveted public speaker and facilitator and has worked with many of this country’s leading institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, the Art Gallery of South Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Sydney Writers’ Festival and Melbourne Fashion Festival.

Speakers

Clarissa M. Esguerra is Associate Curator of Costume and Textiles at LACMA, and co-curator of Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse (2022). In 2019 she curated Power of Pattern: Central Asian Ikats from the David and Elizabeth Reisbord Collection, and in 2016 co-curated Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015 (2016). Both exhibitions were awarded the Richard Martin Award for Excellence in the Exhibition of Costume by the Costume Society of America. Esguerra’s curatorial contributions also include Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700–1915 (2010–11) and Undertaking the Making: LACMA Costume and Textiles Pattern Project. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Brenau Women’s College and the University of Georgia.

Professor Jacqueline Millner is Professor of Visual Arts at La Trobe University. She has published widely on Australian and international contemporary art, including the recent Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes (2018), co-edited with Dr Catriona Moore. She co-convenes the research group Contemporary Art and Feminism and is leading the project Care: Feminism, Art, Ethics in Neoliberal Times.

Danielle Whitfield is Curator of Fashion and Textiles at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Since joining the NGV Danielle has curated numerous exhibitions and spoken and published widely on the history of Australian and international fashion. Recent projects and scholarly contributions include Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse (2022), Collecting Comme (2019), The Krystyna Campbell-Pretty Fashion Gift (2019) and The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture (2017).