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The exhibition links leatherwork and the fashion of leather goods. Each of them must also have a meaningful history. Leather clothing and footwear have gone a long way from direct functions – accessible and warmed up and have become not only part of the most important costume but also a symbol and an integral part of some subcultures (cowboys, rockers, bikers, punks) and practicality and durability. household application of leather.
It can be assumed that leather upholstery designed to use the body from the inconveniences caused by nature was found four hundred thousand years ago. This is evidenced by the discovery of leather processing tools, and archaeological research shows that there were already germinating leather. Over time, and with advances in technology, leather upholstery has partially lost the functions of linking the body to adverse weather conditions, yet occupying significant places in military history. Over time, leather clothing and accessories have taken a strong position in shaping image, status, individuality, or collective identity.
In the later periods, when tannery made social and political life, the population of cities with successful tannery workshops increased as people moved to live where they hoped to get a job. 18th c. the leather industry becomes part of economic policy, and in the 19th century. with the acceleration of the technological revolution through the mechanization of leather processing processes to accelerate leather processing processes and increase the scale of production.
Šiauliai can be called the city of leatherworkers. One of the greatest tanners was Chaim Frenkel (1857–1920). 1879 he bought a small leather processing workshop of a local Jew in Šiauliai and started to develop the leather business. 1894 Ch. Frankel began to make the sole leather. He improved the tanning process and already produced “red soles” that were extremely resistant to moisture. “Raudonieji padai” had a market demand and became famous for Ch. Frenkel Leather Factory. Its success also stimulated the emergence of other leather processing companies in Šiauliai – here in the 19th century. pab. the leather factories of brothers Wolf and Boris Nurok, brothers Naum and Solomon Choronzicki and brothers Rogalin developed and developed their activities.
“Leather and Fashion” is the fifth exhibition of the Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation in the department of Šiauliai “Aušra” Museum – Chaim Frenkel’s villa. This exhibition is more than the former in that it is completed by co-creating the concept of the exhibition. Most of the exposition consists of artifacts from the Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation’s collection, the exposition is complemented by exhibits from the collections of Šiauliai Aušra Museum and other Lithuanian museums: archeological and historical exhibits from the Lithuanian National, Lithuanian Aviation, Kernavė Archaeological Site and Ukmergė Local History Museum.
From the Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation are exhibited from 1860 to 2000. period clothing sets, individual clothes and accessories that create fashion designers and famous fashion houses: Christian Dioro, Givenchy, Thierry Mugler, Pierreo Cardino and others. Historical and archeological exhibits are displayed from the collections of the Šiauliai Aušra Museum, and the shoe collection of the Elnis footwear factory is presented.
The clothes and accessories on display in the exhibition tell about the connection between fashion and leather only in part, because the theme is very broad and has many lines. The following are presented in more detail: footwear (exhibited footwear dates from the 8th – 10th centuries to the end of the 20th century), Aviator jacket and leather clothing of music coryphaeus. The theme of the aviator jacket reveals the purity of leather purity for the pilot for adverse weather conditions while flying, popularized between the music and film worlds and creating a skirt of clothing that later became an integral part of everyday wardrobe in people’s closets and clothes.
The exhibition will run until 2022. January 16
Ticket to the museum – 5 Eur, with a discount – 2.50 Eur.
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