Watch Nadya try to articulate her observations from people-watching at Art Jakarta and Frieze Seoul! And Daniela talks about incorporating somatic practices into the design process with her students. Hear about both the visual and the haptic in our first episode since the new academic year begun.

Dani and Nadya reveal a new photo taken at Sajeev Photo Studio to commemorate 80 episodes of In the Vitrine! They then talk about three exhibitions they visited together: 'The World is Flat After All' at Supper House, as well as '#SGFASHIONNOW' and 'Batik Kita' at the Asian Civilisations Museum. What did they discover at these shows, and how did they make them think about fashion and curation? Watch to find out!

Nadya and Dani talk about two exhibitions they visited recently which they had looked forward to, and made them think. Nadya went to ‘Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection’ at the National Gallery Victoria in Melbourne, where she learnt a lot from looking at the exhibits in multiple mediums, including dress, and reading the rich accompanying texts. And Dani unpacks her experience of ‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear’ at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, bringing us through the choice of mannequins, the role of Asian menswear and even a section dedicated to drag. They conclude by thinking about the pros and cons of big-scale exhibitions, and the power of curation to tell stories.

Dani talks about her Creative Residency with the National Library in Singapore. Together with Stephanie Jane Burt for A Stubborn Bloom, they explored teenhood and its various tropes in Singapore in the 1990s through their own experiences, complemented by materials at the library. They will soon be releasing a video titled 'Elizabeth's Diary', their creative response to the research, serving up Y2K looks and responding to what they found in the archives.

Dani and Nadya discuss Fashion on Display (@fashionondisplay), a new, pioneering “independent fashion curation studio and experimental gallery dedicated to exhibiting dress” in Singapore, created by Weiqi Yap (@coqillage). They talk about their anticipation of the intimate space, and taking in its first exhibition ‘Dressing for the Dream Space’, which displays outfits of four museum-goers and other artefacts from their visits. A show not to be missed, and a venue Dani and Nadya will be frequenting in its year of operation!

Dani and Nadya discuss Fashion on Display, a new, pioneering “independent fashion curation studio and Nadya discusses “Unravelling Threads: Tracing and Transforming Violence and Trauma through Fashion”, a two-day online conference organised by Dr Rebecca Arnold and Dr Lucy Moyse Ferreira in a collaboration between The Courtauld Institute of Art and London College of Fashion. She discusses with Dani ideas from the conference, from the healing properties of fashion to the potential of fashion – and time – to be violent.

Dani talks about her first encounters with Fashion Revolution (@fash_rev), and volunteering with the global initiative in this year's edition, which is themed 'Money Fashion Power'. Fashion Revolution Week Singapore (@fash_rev_sg), taking place from 18 to 24 April has a line-up of events online and in person. Nadya and Dani talk about a panel discussion titled “Who Owns Culture?” organised by Anisa Johnny (@anisajohnny), which featured panelists such as our colleague Martin Bonney (@martinjohnbonney), Ifeoma Ubby (@OliveAnkara), Hillary Wan (@mystory_and_i), as well as Aqilah Zailan (@aqilah.zailan) of Studio Gypsied (@studio.gypsied), who has written about her work on FAM (@fashionandmarket_). Join Dani this weekend at Mender’s Studio and What’s the Stitch? A Garment Analysis Workshop at Open Studios at Cineleisure (@cineleisure.co).

Dani speaks about a recent symposium she attended organised by Dr Monica Titton entitled ‘Tailoring Suits, Shaping Bodies’, and missing Grace Wales Bonner given the time difference. On the occasion of the opening of ‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear’ at V&A Museum, Dani and Nadya wonder about their interactions with menswear in academia and for their own wardrobes. Recalling their fascination with writings such as Paul Jobling’s ‘Advertising Menswear’ and Masafumi Monden’s ‘Japanese Fashion Cultures: Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan’, and the early influence of blogs such as The Sartorialist. To round up, they consider the increasingly gender fluid trajectory that menswear is taking in recent years.

Episode 73 | The Non Season and Reminiscing Orchard Road

This episode is focused on The Non Season, taking place from 17 February to 10 April. Organised by Hyphen BB, it features fashion, art and lifestyle activations on Orchard Road, to explore how Singapore may operate outside conventional seasons. Dani is holding a visible mending clinic, while Nadya is moderating a talk about alternative structures in fashion and art. They also reminisce the role that the iconic shopping strip played in their teenagehood, from hanging out at Heeren to people-watch to shopping the latest trends at Far East Plaza.

Nadya reflects on her presentation ‘Framing the Body: Yip Cheong Fun and Singapore Photography in the 1960s and 1970s’ as part of the ‘Addressing Images’ series at the Research Forum at Courtauld Institute of Art, where she looked at the body’s role within the images, which have not yet been analysed in detail, and the embodied experience of looking at them. Daniela talks about the photographs that stood out to her, and Nadya speaks further about how notes from the audience, including from Rebecca Arnold’s (@documentingfashion) in the latest episode from Rebecca & Beatrice’s weekly fashion podcast (@bandeapartpodcast), have given her new ideas about the photographers and their work.