Department of Curiosities
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Department of Curiosities
Department of Curiosities is a slow fashion atelier and home to Morúa, Production Mode, and our eponymous collection of luxury lingerie and nightwear, all created and sold in-house.
Part workshop/part showroom/part concept store, the Department of Curiosities also hosts exhibitions, lectures, performances, and workshops.
The designers behind Department of Curiosities:
Gerry Quinton designs Morúa, a line specializing in corsetry and gowns characterized by strong, graceful silhouettes, romantic inspirations, and exquisite detailing.
Quinton was born in Costa Rica and has also lived in Spain and England. Her work is influenced by a sense of displacement and nostalgia that comes from leading a life split amongst continents, drawing on old-world craftsmanship traditions of tailoring and corsetry.
Gerry has developed a stellar reputation as a corsetiere both in London and Chicago.
Her experience ranges from bespoke design and construction to pattern drafting for all kinds of garments, to teaching for the fashion industry and colleges.
She is a founding fellow of the Oxford Conference of Corsetry in Oxford, UK. Clients and students travel from around the world to be fitted and learn from her. Her most recent high profile client was Madonna, who wore one of her pieces in a video shot by Steven Klein.
Jamie Hayes’ interests lie at the intersection of fashion, art, labor, and identity. Her approach is both collaborative and customized. She believes that clothes should fit one’s body (not the other way around); that people should wear what flatters and interests them rather than what someone else dictates is fashion¬able; that style is a form of self-expression; and that everyone in the chain of production of clothing should be paid a living wage.
Jamie has worked in the fashion industry since 1999, and in the field of immigrant and labor rights since 2009. Her recent work merges these two paths: she has designed for fair trade organizations including SERRV, Inter¬crafts Peru, and Threads of Yunnan, and has volunteered as a Campaign Leader for Chicago Fair Trade. She is the owner and designer of slow fashion line Production Mode, Her work has been featured in Elle and Paper Magazine, and on the cover of Billboard.
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Department of Curiosities is a slow fashion atelier and home to Morúa, Production Mode, and our eponymous collection of luxury lingerie and nightwear, all created and sold in-house.
Part workshop/part showroom/part concept store, the Department of Curiosities also hosts exhibitions, lectures, performances, and workshops.
The designers behind Department of Curiosities:
Gerry Quinton designs Morúa, a line specializing in corsetry and gowns characterized by strong, graceful silhouettes, romantic inspirations, and exquisite detailing.
Quinton was born in Costa Rica and has also lived in Spain and England. Her work is influenced by a sense of displacement and nostalgia that comes from leading a life split amongst continents, drawing on old-world craftsmanship traditions of tailoring and corsetry.
Gerry has developed a stellar reputation as a corsetiere both in London and Chicago.
Her experience ranges from bespoke design and construction to pattern drafting for all kinds of garments, to teaching for the fashion industry and colleges.
She is a founding fellow of the Oxford Conference of Corsetry in Oxford, UK. Clients and students travel from around the world to be fitted and learn from her. Her most recent high profile client was Madonna, who wore one of her pieces in a video shot by Steven Klein.
Jamie Hayes’ interests lie at the intersection of fashion, art, labor, and identity. Her approach is both collaborative and customized. She believes that clothes should fit one’s body (not the other way around); that people should wear what flatters and interests them rather than what someone else dictates is fashion¬able; that style is a form of self-expression; and that everyone in the chain of production of clothing should be paid a living wage.
Jamie has worked in the fashion industry since 1999, and in the field of immigrant and labor rights since 2009. Her recent work merges these two paths: she has designed for fair trade organizations including SERRV, Inter¬crafts Peru, and Threads of Yunnan, and has volunteered as a Campaign Leader for Chicago Fair Trade. She is the owner and designer of slow fashion line Production Mode, Her work has been featured in Elle and Paper Magazine, and on the cover of Billboard.
