About: Jenna

Jenna Rossi-Camus covers the UK for Worn Through.

Jenna is a London-based fashion curator and exhibition designer whose varied experience in art, design, fashion and performance inform both her academic and creative practices. After nearly a decade of working as a professional costume designer and stylist, she decided to pursue an MA in Fashion Curating in order to unite her interest in history, design, fashion and visual communications. Her varied involvement in the fashion industry gave rise to an interest in fashion humour, and inspired her to focus her MA research on the cartoons of The New Yorker magazine and continues to research American and European fashion satire. Jenna’s other areas of research include Egyptomania and Fashion, anachronism in fashion and the history of dress studies.

Currently, Jenna is Curatorial Assistant for the exhibition The Eye Has To Travel about the life and work of Diana Vreeland. (Palazzo Fortuny, 2012). Recently, she also assisted curator and exhibition-maker Judith Clark on the exhibitions Washed Up (Selfridge's 2011) and The Judgment of Paris (Fashion Space Gallery, 2011) and the Simone Museum (Seoul, South Korea, 2012).

In 2010 she curated the exhibitions Browns: 40 Years of Fashion Innovation and Carnaby Sample 2010, and devised a programme of events to coincide with the Royal Academy’s exhibition AWARE: Fashion, Art, Identity.

Jenna is a Research and Development Associate of the Museum of British Folklore, and helped organise Remember, Remember, an exhibition on the history and culture of fireworks in Britain.

She has worked in the costume departments of The Museum of the City of New York and The Museum of London and co-founded the Beyond Retro Vintage Textile and Print Archive, acting as a design consultant to designer and high street fashion brands.

Jenna earned an MA (Distinction) in Fashion Curation from the London College of Fashion in 2009. She is also an alumnus of London’s Motley Theatre Design Course, and holds a BFA in Illustration and History of Art from Pratt Institute in New York City.

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