With Gimena Garmendia, co-curated Wool Skirts, an exhibition showcasing a portion of my grandma’s collection of 632 wool skirts alongside reimagined wool skirts by 21 artists and designers. SUDESTADA, 67 West Street, studio 513, Brooklyn, New York. October 16, 2025-March 15, 2026.
The 632 wool skirts in this collection span the 1940s to the 1990s, a period encompassing multiple waves of feminism, the expansion of global trade, and the rise of fast fashion. Three decades later, the collection reawakens to a new era of debate over gender justice, trade regulation, and environmental impact—issues calling for humane, imaginative response.
Wool Skirts takes the wool skirts as canvas and the collection as forum for prototyping fashion’s vital renewal. In collaboration with SUDESTADA, it presents a curated selection from the archive alongside reimagined wool skirts by twenty-one international artists and designers. The first public presentation of my grandma's collection, this exhibition also marks the beginning of its dispersal as the skirts pass into the hands of a new generation.
> Installation views of Wool Skirts at SUDESTADA. Photos: Pablo Argüelles
Participating artists and designers include Alexandra Barlow, Alana Burns, Athena Kokoronis, Camila Banzo, Carla Duarte, Emma Larimer, Fanny Allié, Jason Rosenberg, Jessi Highet, Kisook Suh, Lorenza Lattanzi, Mariah Smith, Maxine Midtbo, Megumi Shauna Arai, Rachel Meade Smith, Ragna Frodadottir, Sabine Skarule, Sam Bennett, Sarah Nsikak, Sol Pardo, Tajah Ellis.
