Curating Africa Fashion

Join Dr Christine Checinska of the V&A and Ernestine White-Mifetu of the Brooklyn Museum for a conversation about the Africa Fashion special exhibition.

On view at the V&A until April 2023, Africa Fashion will then travel to the Brooklyn Museum in June 2023. Celebrating the irresistible creativity, ingenuity and unstoppable global impact of contemporary African fashions, the exhibition spans iconic mid-20th century to contemporary creatives through photographs, textiles, music and the visual arts. Join these two experts as they discuss the vitality and global impact of a fashion scene as dynamic and varied as the continent itself.

Dr Christine Checinska is the V&A’s inaugural Senior Curator of African and African Diaspora Fashion. Prior to joining the V&A, Christine worked as a womenswear designer, academic, artist and curator. Her creative practice and research explore the relationship between fashion, culture and race. Christine’s previous exhibitions include Social Fabric at Iniva, London, 2012, on which she was co-curator and The Arrivants at FADA Gallery, Johannesburg, 2016. In industry for over thirty years, Christine has created womenswear collections for iconic British brands such as Margaret Howell, where she was a Senior Designer, during the late 1990s.

Ernestine White-Mifetu is the Sills Foundation Curator of African Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Her professional curatorial practice on the African continent spans two decades where she has held directorial, curatorial and administrative positions within national institutions in South Africa. She is an independent artist and her work can be found in private and public collections in South Africa and the United States, including the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.