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Join us on February 17 to hear Kate Sekules interpret the theme of Touch through something that touches our skin every day: our clothes.
About Kate Sekules
Kate's mission is to spread the mend, foster community, & get us all codesigning our own wardrobes. A writer, historian, teacher, & lifelong practitioner, she is the author of MEND! A Refashioning Manual & Manifesto (Penguin, 2020), & her work has been featured in the New York Times, Selvedge, Fast Company, Vogue, & Nylon, among others, & exhibited widely. She is a professor of fashion history at Pratt Institute, a frequent lecturer, speaker, & tutor (FIT, Parsons, Winterthur, RISD, & British Museums, Textile Society of America, Custom Collaborative, etc), & the mending author for the forthcoming Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles. She is currently completing her PhD dissertation, A History & Theory of Mending, at Bard Graduate Center, New York, after which she will have actually earned the title Dr Mend-her alter ego who dispenses mendication Rx in regular clothes surgeries. In former lives Kate was a journalist (New York Times, Food & Wine, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, the Guardian), entrepreneur (Refashioner, personal wardrobe trading site, est. 2009), & boxer (memoir: The Boxer's Heart, Random House, 2000, 2012). She launched Visible Mending eight years ago, and, as @visiblemend hosts #MendMarch on Instagram. This year will be the sixth. She hopes to see you there.
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