Face to Face with Dr. Sarah Fee: The BIG impact of textiles on human history and society

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From time immemorial, humans have expended incredible efforts to adorn their bodies, homes and gods. This tour through the exhibition, BIG by one of the curators, Dr. Sarah Fee, will explore stories behind key objects and how they express the idea of largesse and grandeur, be it as major innovations, important events, oversized personalities, or simply for gigantic proportions or extreme amounts of time expended in their making. In 2006 alone, US online purchases of clothing came to $18.3 billion; discover some of the forces driving such great investments around the globe and across time.