Meet our new Chair and trustees

Meet our new Chair Vanessa Jones and welcome our three new trustees.

Meet our new Chair, Vanessa Jones!

Vanessa Jones is Curator of Dress at the Rijksmuseum. Her expertise lies in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sartorial objects and in diversifying interpretive methodologies employed to dress objects within the museum context. She is the curator of the current display Suit Yourself.

Vanessa first became a Costume Society member over a decade ago, and shares "I'm honoured to finally be leading the committee in the next chapter of its history. I'm looking forward to building more collaborations across multiple disciplines - to bring fresh ideas and knowledge to dress history.

As I work and live between the UK and the Netherlands, I'm incredibly keen to build and promote global links and spotlight more diverse voices in dress history and fashion narratives."

 

We have also welcomed three new trustees: Serena Dyer, Vicky Haddock and Sarah Howard.