Alison Moloney, Wanda Lephoto and Dr Erica de Greef discuss the photograph which opened Fashion Accounts in Museum Africa which reimagines histories of Black South African youth that were either not documented or were destroyed by the apartheid police. Wanda is a Johannesburg-based designer, artist, and critic whose collaborative work negotiates the boundaries of culture and shared histories. Erica is a curator, author and co-founder of the African Fashion Research Institute and a lecturer at WITS School of Art. Together with Alison the three co-curated FashionAccounts in Museum Africa which explores collection and archival practices of history and memory through dress.

Alison Moloney and Rachel Dedman discuss the garmentswhich opened the show Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, which reflect the everyday clothing rural Palestinian women wore in the early twentiethcentury. Rachel is the Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and curated Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery which was held at Kettle’s Yard,Cambridge, and The Whitworth, Manchester, between 2023-2024.

Alison Moloney, Christine Checinska and Elisabeth Murray discuss the opening garments by Imane Ayissi in Africa Fashion which was held at the V&A in 2022. Dr Christine Checinska is the inaugural Senior Curator African and Diaspora: Textiles and Fashion at the V&A and Lead Curator of Africa Fashion. Elisabeth Murray is Senior Curator at the Fashion Museum Bath. Prior to joining the FashionMuseum, she was a curator in the fashion and textiles section at the V&A focusing on 20th century and contemporary fashion and was the project curator for Africa Fashion.