From their spatial layout to the way garments, colours, and lighting, museum exhibitions offer unique ways to understand fashion and creativity. In this talk, ACM senior curator Jackie Yoong and exhibition designer Laura Miotto discuss how Laura responded to the five major exhibition themes in Andrew Gn: Fashioning Singapore and the World. Laura will also reflect on the role exhibition design plays in presenting and communicating fashion to the public in a different light.


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About the speaker


Laura Miotto is an award-winning exhibition designer and educator. With 20 years of experience both as a creative director and an architectural designer, Miotto has worked on permanent and temporary exhibitions, focusing on spatial and sensorial design strategies in the context of museums, galleries, and public spaces.

Her recent exhibitions include the Singapore Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale (2022); The Posthuman City at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (2020); and Guo Pei: Chinese Art and Couture at the Asian Civilisations Museum (2019), which received the award for Best Design at the Global Fine Art Awards in the US. She has also designed permanent galleries for several institutions, including the Borneo Cultures Museum, Malaysia, the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapore, and the National Museum of Singapore. In 2010 she received the President’s Design Award for the exhibition Quest for Immortality: The World of Ancient Egypt at the National Museum of Singapore.

Miotto currently co-directs the Master’s in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices programme at the School of Art, Design, and Media (NTU).
She is also design director at GSM Project, Singapore, and a founding member of Sistrum —a collective that focuses on long-term sonic projects like Nature Remixed (2022–23) and Vel Vel (2021–23).


About the moderator


Jackie Yoong is Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles at the Asian Civilisations Museum and Peranakan Museum. Her recent exhibitions include Andrew Gn: Fashioning Singapore and the World, Guo Pei: Chinese Art and Couture, and the permanent fashion galleries at the Asian Civilisations Museum and Peranakan Museum. She is currently serving on the International Council of Museums Costume Board. Her research interests focus on Singapore and Asia in global fashion history from the 20th century onward.


_{Image: Andrew Gn: Fashioning Singapore and the world. 27 May – 17 September 2023, Asian Civilisations Museum.}

This talk is organised in conjunction with Andrew Gn: Fashioning Singapore and the World. This exhibition presents the fashion journey of Andrew Gn, one of Singapore’s most prolific designers, and celebrates his major gift to the nation. Known for creations that are refined and maximalist, with a cross-cultural aesthetic exemplary of innovation in tradition, Andrew Gn’s precisely tailored works have been embraced by royals, celebrities, and other influential women around the world. Through five sections and over 100 representative works, the exhibition explores Gn’s roots in Asia and expressions of Asian and Western art and history in his work, and celebrates his distinctive aesthetics, craftsmanship, and global impact.