Please join us for our signature Speaker evening! Dinner, Social Time & Announcments 7-8 p.m.; Speaker 8-9 p.m.
Speaker: Michelle Tolini Finamore is a Salem, Massachusetts-based curator and museum consultant who is passionate about the cultural intersection of design, fashion, and film. Michelle grew up in the Boston area and her interest in fashion was sparked at a young age; her mother owned a local dress boutique and her great aunt was a skilled embroiderer at Bianchi of Boston. Her love of art history gradually coalesced with her fashion interests and she received her Ph.D. from the Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, Design and Culture and her M.A. from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She was the Penny Vinik Curator of Fashion Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for 8 years where she curated exhibitions including the groundbreaking Gender Bending Fashion, #techstyle, Hollywood Glamour: Fashion and Jewelry from the Silver Screen and Think Pink.
Michelle has written numerous books and articles for both the scholarly and popular press on topics as varied as fashion in silent film, menswear, contemporary fashion, sustainability, studio jewelry, and food history. Hollywood Before Glamour was the first book to explore fashion in American silent film. She has lectured at venues in Europe and America and has taught courses on fashion/design/film history at the Rhode Island School of Design, Northeastern University, Massachusetts College of Art, and the Fashion Institute of Technology. .
Michelle Tolini Finamore, Ph.D. Fashion & Design Curator
@lovefashionhistory www.michellefinamorefashion.wordpress.com
We will have a delicious catered meal, wine and other beverages: Enjoy dinner with us!
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