The work of Amanda McGowan and Mattie Barringer, the duo behind the experimental label Women’s History Museum lives right at the edge where the meaning and purpose of clothes becomes unwieldy; where practical needs crash against symbols. It reject notions of propriety, and embraces an unabashed commitment to the female urge to dress up.

Although recently the pair had been doing runway shows tied to the New York Fashion Week calendar, this season they skipped it for something a little different; an exhibition at the Amant in Brooklyn. “Originally we were going to do a full runway show in Paris this September and then also do the show here at the Amant,” said McGowan at the gallery a few days before the exhibition’s official opening. Realizing the amount of work that would entail, they

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