Curator, Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style

Design by Julia Pike

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young museum


January 2024 - October 2024

Explore the history of San Francisco through fashion. Featuring one of the most iconic collections of 20th- and 21st-century women’s clothing in the United States, this exhibition includes 100 collection highlights, along with local loans of high fashion and haute couture. The first major presentation of our costume collection in over 35 years, it showcases designs from French couturiers, Japanese avant-garde designers, and other pillars of the fashion industry, including Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen, Christopher John Rogers, Comme des Garçons, and Rodarte. The designs on view, many never shown before, reflect San Francisco’s long-standing tradition of self-expression through fashion.

Presenting curator, Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love


Sequoia Barnes, advising scholar


Design by Tristan Telander


Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young museum
October 2021 - April 2022

This exhibition celebrates the career and legacy of Black fashion designer Patrick Kelly (1954–1990). First presented by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2014, it presents seventy-nine fully accessorized ensembles, dating from 1984 to 1990, from the Philadelphia Museum’s archive of Kelly’s work, to new acquisitions from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s costume collection.

 

Curator, To Teach and Inspire: The Julia Brenner Textile Collection


Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young museum


October 2021 - April 2023

Between 1923 and 1938, Julia Brenner (1866–1944) donated more than one thousand textile fragments to the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum (now part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco). This installation features a selection of printed textiles, spanning the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, from Brenner’s collection.

Co-curator, Contemporary Muslim Fashions, with Jill D’Alessandro, and

Reina Lewis, consulting


Design by Hariri & Hariri Architecture


Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young museum


September 2018 - January 2019

The exhibition examines how Muslim women—those who cover their heads and those who do not—have become arbiters of style within and beyond their communities. After its debut at the de Young museum, the exhibition traveled to Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York.

 

Curator, Fans of the Eighteenth Century


Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young museum


March 2018 - June 2019

Fans have served as accessories of fashion and utility since antiquity but reached their peak production and use in eighteenth-century Europe. Fans of the Eighteenth Century explores this quintessential period of fan production through a selection of examples from the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.