Dress & Drinks: Cooper Hewitt | Conversations on Dress | Costume Society of America

Dress & Drinks: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum | Conversations on Dress | Costume Society of America Join us as we speak with Susan Brown, Alexa Griffith Winton, and Leigh Wishner. Brown and Winton are co-curators of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s exhibition A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes, and are co-editors of the accompanying book published by Yale University Press. Wishner is a contributor to the publication. Join us to learn all about the exhibition and our speakers’ backgrounds in dress! Did you enjoy this video? Please consider supporting our mission and our free webinar series by visiting our website to make a contribution: www.costumesocietyamerica.com. Susan Brown is Associate Curator and Acting Head of Textiles at Cooper Hewitt, where she oversees a global collection of over 27,000 textiles produced over 2,000 years. Her past exhibitions for the museum include Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance; Fashioning Felt; Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay; Scraps: Fashion, Textiles and Creative Reuse; Contemporary Muslim Fashions; and Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Prints that Made the Fashion Brand. Alexa Griffith Winton is a design historian and educator. She is currently Manager, Public Programs and Interpretation at Cooper Hewitt. She has researched and published on the work of Dorothy Liebes for over ten years. Alexa's work has been published in scholarly and popular publications, including the J