About
Jenna Rossi-Camus is a fashion curator, exhibition designer, historian and lecturer.
She has curated fashion exhibitions including T-Shirt: Cult, Culture Subversion (Fashion & Textile Museum / Civic Barnsley), Fashion & Freedom (14-18 Now, Manchester Art Gallery) and Women, Fashion, Power (Design Museum, London). Prior to pursuing fashion curation she was a theatrical costume designer and also worked in the fashion industry as a textile archivist, design consultant and set and prop stylist.
Jenna holds a PhD and an MA in fashion curation from the Centre for Fashion Curation at UAL London College of Fashion. Her practice-based doctoral research examined fashion graphic satire and developed a proposal for a site-responsive fashion exhibition at Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. The research also revived the 18th century bibliographic practice of extra-illustration as a method for presenting a curatorial narrative. As well as continuing to explore fashion satire and humour, Jenna is also engaged in researching Egyptomania in fashion and working towards a dress ethnography project exploring fashion and identity on Staten Island, New York.
Jenna is a senior lecturer and co-course leader of the MA in International Fashion Marketing at Regent’s University. She is also a visiting lecturer at UAL: London College of Fashion, UAL Central St. Martins and UAL: Chelsea College of Arts, and has previously lectured and supervised MA dissertations at The Royal College of Art and Winchester School of Art. She regularly presents at conferences and also delivers talks for museums, schools and private organisations.
Jenna loves purple, platform shoes, fashion memes and anything wearable with ancient Egyptian motifs.