Wild & Cultivated: Fashioning the Rose Online Exhibition

The rose and fashion are inextricably entwined. Roses, like fashion, are a luxury and they are ephemeral. They are both ‘shown’ seasonally, their appeal is multi-sensorial, and they each incite passion and obsession. In this online exhibition to accompany Wild & Cultivated: Fashioning the Rose, we explore how roses interact with the dressed body – in fashion, costume, and every-day dress, as well as the ways roses inspired some of the contemporary artists shown in the exhibition.