From Paris to Pompeii — again

As part of Massey Uni­ver­si­ty’s ‘Blow’ Cre­ative Arts Fes­ti­val, Leimo­mi Oakes is once again pre­sent­ing a  a free talk and fash­ion show From Pom­peii to Paris: the Clas­si­cal influ­ence on West­ern fash­ion

See his­to­ry come to life with a talk explor­ing how ancient Greece and Rome have influ­enced fash­ions in the West.  The talk will be illus­trat­ed by 13 mod­els in his­tor­i­cal­ly accu­rate recre­ations of peri­od cos­tumes, rang­ing from the 1770s to the 1930s, and com­plete with stays, panier, corsets and bus­tles.  Each ensem­ble has been cre­at­ed by Leimo­mi Oakes using peri­od accu­rate sewing tech­niques and his­tor­i­cal exam­ples.