Guest speaker Dr Sylvia Olsen shared her lifelong study of knitting in Canada. Knitting-related items from Ivan Sayers’ and SMOC’s collections were on display.
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SMOC’s Honorary Curator, Ivan Sayers, discusses collecting for museums and the importance of preserving fashion history in British Columbia.
This video was commissioned by the Vancouver Art Gallery for Modern in the Making: Postwar Craft and Design in British Columbia
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SMOC’s collections show us that past fashions are relevant today more than ever, especially in these challenging times.
In today’s video Ivan Sayers (SMOC Curator) & Denise Jacques (SMOC President) showcase ‘V for Victory’ items from our collection.
The Canadian Museum Association’s national conference was held in Vancouver, April 9-13th, 2018. The conference, at Vancouver’s Sheraton Wall Centre, and was attended by professionals at Canada’s large museums and galleries, and smaller museums and galleries, from East to West. The participants were academics, artists, conservators, CEO’s, and consultants…
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SMOC’s knowledgeable curator, Ivan Sayers, has been known to comment on the transition from the full- figured clothes of the pre-Great War to the more maidenly styles of the wartime period, seeing scope for working out the powerful symbolism implicit in clothes.
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For the 150th anniversary of the legislation of Canada as a nation, I have been reviewing recent photos from Ivan’s shows to focus on those items that capture aspects of Canada’s material history…
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On September 19th 2016 Vancouver Fashion Week announced Ivan Sayers the winner for the Industry Originator Awards - Special Recognition
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