Collaboration between Martin Kamer and Annette Soumilas - Part 2
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Annette Soumilas, independent costume and fashion designer, specialising in textile conservation and display of historic dress, talks about the exhibition »Fashion Drive: Extreme Clothing in Visual Arts« at the Kunsthaus Zurich in 2018. Her job was to prepare loans from the Kamer-Ruf collection and from Martin Kamer's private collection at the storage for the exhibition and to dress the mannequins on site. Different work steps were necessary to present the clothes as it was intended. Annette talks about impressions that remain in her memory from this exhibition.
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