Autumn/Winter 2024 RUNWAY SHOW - “Enfer”
The animal human in Metropolis. . .
A beautiful, and wild beast caught in the steel trap maw of New York, peering through the glittering lattice of its jagged teeth
PRESS PRESS PRESS
Interview Magazine - “The City Is a Catwalk”: Women’s History Museum Conquers NYFW by Taylore Scarabelli
Novembre - “WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM "ENFER" RUNWAY SHOW AW24 SEEN BY COLIN SAVERCOOL” by Colin Savercool
PAPER - “Women’s History Museum Lives Up to Its Name” by Ivan Guzman
office Magazine - “Women’s History Museum” by Christopher Schreck
Flaunt Magazine - “WOMEN’S HISTORY MUSEUM | AUTUMN WINTER 2024 COLLECTION - AN UNDISCOVERED SIDE OF NEW YORK CITY: ENFER” by Nick Hsu
Women’s History Museum A/W24 Collection. Courtesy of firstVIEW
Photo Below Courtesy of Michelle Corvino
New York, NY - On Thursday, February 8th, Women’s History Museum showcased their Autumn/Winter 2024 Ready-To-Wear collection titled “Enfer” at 30 Wall Street. This is the brand’s first show in four years during which they also debuted WHM Menswear.
The Women’s History Museum Autumn/Winter 2024 collection focuses on themes close to home — the landscape of New York City, visually and sensorially. The buildings, Subway system, and ever-present refuse stand in as manifestations of the city’s brutality, sincerity, suffering and strength – all serving as significant motifs of the show. New York’s history, dark and mottled, is compounded by “the daily grind’ of its inhabitants. Fulfillment becomes indistinguishable as we become insatiable. The mood of the show reflects this sensation, phantom limbs learning how to endure.
As a symptom of city-living, Mattie and Amanda have a preoccupation with covering the body — both with armor, literally and figuratively, suiting up to protect those they adorn from real and imagined hazardous materials and conditions. Simultaneously, they still retain a certain fascination with the animalic and the natural, or at least humanity’s attempts to control it. Specifically as women, they relate to farm animals, mostly cows and horses – both historically objectified – drawing tangents between the ways in which women’s bodies are vitiated for their sexuality on one hand, and exploited for their meat and labor on the other. These axes remain tethered, dependent but oppositional. Yet, one can go without the other, acts of reclamation in arms against maintenance, a battle and a dance keeping time with each other, 1-2-3, 1-2-3.
WHEN: Thursday, February 8, 2024, 8PM EST
WHERE: 30 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005
Lookbook Shot By Benjamin Taylor
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SHOW CREDITS:
Styling: Women’s History Museum
Hair: Sonny Molina
Make-up: Nat Carlson
Casting: Women’s History Museum
Show Design: Women’s History Museum
Photography: Ben Taylor
Music: Amber Bradford
Sound: Peter Fonda
Lighting: Wildblur - Kai Sunderman, Aran Atsuo
Video Montage: Aidan Barringer
Screenprinting: Noel Freibert
Runway Production: Hillary Lui - Preacher House
PR: Lindsey Okubo - Seraph One
Special thanks to: Jeffrey Campbell Shoes, Ada O’Higgins, Albertus Swanepoel, Ali Bonfils, Alyssa Davis & Crucible New York, Ben Mendelewicz, Ben Taylor, Chas White, Christian DeFonte, Dakotah Malisoff, Enzo Iwase, Gabi Rivera-Morales, Jane Ittogi, Jesus Morales, Jina Pinos, Lishan Liu, Lotte Kilros Walworth, Mahasin Abashar, Nick Lamberti, Prudence McCallum, Sadie Patten, Steve Barringer, Sua Yoo, Tammy Wei, Thomas Rainy, Todd McGowan, Tyler Jones, Willard Chung
***Dedicated to Izabelle New
ABOUT WOMEN’S HISTORY MUSEUM
Women’s History Museum was founded by Mattie Barringer (b. 1990) and Amanda McGowan (b. 1990) in 2015 out of the desire to create novel and previously unseen images of beauty. The duo engages with fashion as a medium that has the potential to exist beyond regurgitative spectacle and the ability to change the fabric of reality. Their art practice, which includes sculpture, film, painting, drawing, photography, and performance, is dictated by meticulously sourced historical materials and close collaborations with other artists who often double as models in their fashion shows. In an effort to encompass the psychic reality of fashion and foster a creative community, they interrogate the idea of the museum and insist on alternative and inclusive methods of recording history. womenshistorymuseum.co | @womens_history_museum