Cassie Davies-Strodder

Having worked as a fashion curator at the V&A for many years, my recently submitted PhD, a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with the V&A and UAL, examined many aspects of my former role. My research interests are personal collections of clothing or ‘wardrobes’, museum fashion collecting and nineteenth- and twentieth-century fashion. As a curator my exhibitions include Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion (V&A, 2017) and Fashion Rules: Dress from the collections of HM The Queen, Princess Margaret and Diana, Princess of Wales (Kensington Palace, 2013).

Publications

‘‘The Only Couturier’: Balenciaga’s craft and how it shaped fashion’, in The Secrets of Couture, Sven-Harrys kontstmuseum, 2017

Foreword to ‘The New Bloom of Couture’ in de Rakoff, S. (ed.), The Women of Woodcock, August Editions, 2017, published to support the release of the film The Phantom Thread

London Society Fashion 1905–1925: The Wardrobe of Heather Firbank, V&A Publishing, London, 2015

Modern Royal Fashion: Seven royal women and their style, Historic Royal Palaces, London, 2015

‘Shoes: A Very Fashionable Fetish’, in Persson, H. (ed.), Shoes: Pleasure and Pain, V&A Publishing, London, 2015