Join us for the next Hellenic Women’s Networking Luncheon on October 3, 2026!
We are honoured to have Antonia Anagnostopoulos as our keynote speaker. Antonia will be sharing her expertise and knowledge as a fashion historian and curator with us!
Antonia Anagnostopoulos is a fashion historian, curator, and weaver. She received her BA in Art History at the University of Toronto and her MA in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Centre in New York City. Antonia’s research focuses on textiles and dress worn by Greek peoples throughout the 18th and 19th centuries; she seeks to better understand historical material through object-based methods, including her own weaving practice. Antonia has worked in curatorial and collections departments at the Bata Shoe Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture. She is currently the Veronika Gervers Research Fellow in Fashion and Textile History at the ROM for her project entitled The Arcadian Lass: Recreating a Fustanella and its History.
Antonia will be talking to us about her career and her research:
What can we learn from our grandmothers’ doilies? Their weaving? Their dress? Objects contain many stories. They are physical records of the hands, processes, and ideas that brought them into being. A single motif can reveal something as global as trade networks, or as intimate as family history. In my research, the meticulous observation of traditional garments allows for richer, more complex histories to be written of Greek peoples and their world. In this talk, I will share how I came to do this work, and my ongoing path to becoming a museum professional and textile artist.
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