Design Inspirations and Interpretations in High Style by Jan Reeder | Lecture

Guest Lecture: In the Eye of the Creator: Design Inspirations and Interpretations in High Style by Jan Reeder, consulting curator, Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Legion of Honor. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the opening of the special exhibition High Style: The Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection. Gowns, accessories, and other looks by the most influential designers of the last one hundred years—including Chanel, Givenchy, Dior, and Charles James—trace the evolution of fashion in the 20th century. See this exclusive West Coast presentation from the Brooklyn Museum’s distinguished costume collection. Jan Glier Reeder is consulting curator for the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. From 2005-2009 she was curator and director of a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to inventory and assess the Brooklyn Museum’s 25,000 piece costume collection. Upon completion of the Costume Documentation Project and her move to the Metropolitan Museum in 2009, she curated American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection, on view at the Brooklyn Museum in 2010, and authored the accompanying publication. In 1914 she was co-curator of the exhibition and co-author of the publication Charles James: Beyond Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Educated at Smith College, she holds a MA in Museum Studies, Costume and Textiles, Curatorial Program, from the F