Pamela Golbin

Pamela Golbin (born 1970), is a curator, author and fashion historian.Paris Fashion week, octobre 3, 2020 From 1993 to 2018, Golbin was Chief Curator of Fashion and Textiles at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. In 2019, she was named Artistic Director of the Jacquard by Google Artist Residency.WWD Staff, Trading Fashion History for Wearable tech, Women’s Wear Daily, March 4, 2019
==Biography==
=== Early Life and Education ===
Franco-Chilian born in Lima, Peru, Golbin was raised in Caracas, Venezuela. Her family then moved to Miami where she attended high school, later living between America and Europe.
Golbin attended Columbia University in the City of New York and Paris’ La Sorbonne specializing in Post-World War II Abstract Expressionism. During her studies, Golbin was part of the apprenticeship program at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and worked at The Costume Institute.
=== Career ===
Concurrently, she pursued a similar program at the Musée de la Mode et du Textile in Paris where, following her studies, she was named curator at the age of 23.Couture Confabs”, Sotheby’s, Summer 2016 During her 25-year tenure at the museum, Golbin “helped shape the artistic sensibility in the industry”.The Wall Street Journal, january 15 2017, Mathew Dalton, “What is Luxury anyway?” 
Simultaneously from 2008 to 2013 in New York City, she initiated and developed the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) Annual Fashion Talks. In 2018, she attended the Executive Education management program at Harvard Business School. 
In 2019, Golbin was named Artistic Director of the Jacquard x Google Arts & Culture Residency which aims to explore the synergies between art, fashion, and technology.Google Arts & Culture
Golbin collaborates closely with contemporary designers and international creative talents. John Galliano describes her as “an incomparable source of inspiration, a true well of science Keating, « Le goût des griffes », Vanity Fair France, août 2014, page 86. Valentino Garavani admitted, “She knows more about my own work than I do” and Dries Van Noten remarks, “She has incredible sensitivity and flair”. The Financial Times wrote about her stating, “As the chief curator of fashion and textiles at Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Pamela Golbin is the custodian of the history of French taste”Susan Owens, “A sense for style”, Financial Times, June 23-24, 2012, page 14.The Business of Fashion accurately identifies the personalities influencing an industry in constant evolution, integrating her within their yearly classification of 500 of the most influential people shaping the fashion industry, Pamela Golbin is in charge “of one of the most significant and extensive collections of fashion and textiles in the world”The BOF 500, Business of Fashion. 
Golbin is considered for her work as a historian and curator. “Just as the discipline of architecture boasts its cast of “starchitects”, this critical re-presentation of fashion has been led by a roll call of “It” curators that includes Andrew Bolton (curator)| Andrew Bolton of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Valerie Steele of the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York; and Pamela Golbin of the Musée de la Mode et du Textile, Paris”Mitchell Oakley Smith and Alison Kubler, “Art/Fashion in the 21st century”, Thames and Hudson, London: 2013, page 155
She has been described by the press as “the brains behind the Louvre’s blockbuster fashion exhibitions, Pamela Golbin, is one of the industry’s most influential people you’ve never heard of”.Patricia Lee, « The Master Mind », Female, juillet 2013, page 70. In fact, until she stepped down as chief curator in 2018, her exhibitions saw “hundreds of thousands of visitors every year”
Of her exhibits, fashion critic Suzy Menkes wrote, "Madeleine Vionnet, Puriste de la Mode’ is an intelligent and illuminating exhibition and an example of excellence from its curator, Pamela Golbin".Suzy Menkes, “Liberating Women’s bodies”, The New York Times, July 13, 2009. Or "Balenciaga Paris" is the first major exhibition of Cristóbal Balenciaga held in his adopted city, and its curator, Pamela Golbin, has brought a fine intelligence to clothes that could seem so dissonant in the age of the Internet” Suzy Menkes, “Balenciaga: the past is the future”, The New York Times, july 5, 2006
== Selection of Books==
(non-exhaustive list)
* Couture Confessions, Rizzoli, 2016 ()
* Fashion Forward, 300 Years of Fashion, Rizzoli, 2016 ()
* Paris: Les Boulevards, Rizzoli, 2014 ()
* Dries Van Noten, Inspirations, Lanoo, 2014 (ISBN978-2916914480) 
* Fashion Icons, 2014 ()
* Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs, Rizzoli, 2012 ()
* Hussein Chalayan, Rizzoli, 2011 () 
* Madeleine Vionnet: Puriste de la Mode, Rizzoli, 2009 ()
* Valentino, Thèmes et Variations, Rizzoli, 2008 ()
* Balenciaga Paris, Thames et Hudson, 2006 ()
* Fashion Designers, Watson & Guptill, 2000 (ISBN13: 9780823016396)
== Exhibitions ==
(non-exhaustive list)
Exhibition 	Exhibition dates 	Theme 	Notes 	Catalog
Fashion Forward, Three Centuries of FashionParis, Fashion Forward 	20167 April14 August 	To mark 30 years of its fashion collection, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs brings together 300 exceptional pieces from the museum presented through a chronological timeline from 1715 to 2015 	Scenographers : Christopher Wheeldon, Jérôme KaplanArtistic Direction : Marc Ascoli	French, English
Dries Van Noten, InspirationsParis, Dries Van Noten 	201401 march02 November 	Masterpieces from the worlds of Art, Fashion, Photography and Film come together to unveil the creative processes of a fashion designer 	Scenographers :Dries Van Noten, ArterGraphic designer : Joseph Logan 	French, English, Flemish
Louis Vuitton, Marc JacobsParis, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs 	201209 march16 September 	The contributions of two major personalities from the world of luxury: Louis Vuitton, a 19th-century industrialist, and Marc Jacobs, contemporary artistic director exhibiting for the first time 	Scenographers : Sam Gainsbury & Joseph BenettArtistic Direction : Lee Swillingham 	French, English, German
Hussein Chalayan, Récits de ModeParis, Hussein Chalayan 	201105 July11 décember 	First monograph in France 	Scenographers :Zoé Smith,Bloch Architects 	French, English
Madeleine Vionnet : Puriste de la ModeParis, Madeleine Vionnet 	200924 June 200931 January 2010 	First major retrospective presenting the exceptional collection transmitted by the designer to the Arts Décoratifs in Paris 	Scenographers :Andrée PutmanGraphic designer :Atalante Paris 	French, English
Valentino, Thèmes et VariationsParis, Valentino 	200816 June21 September 	First French retrospective of the couturier Valentino 	Scenographers :Patrick Kinmonth,Antonio MonfredaArtistic Direction :Sam Shahid 	French, English, Spanish, German, Italian
Balenciaga ParisParis, Balenciaga 	200605 July 200628 January 2007 	First retrospective in Paris of the Spanish couturier Cristobal Balenciaga with the participation of Nicolas Ghesquière 	Scenographers :Dominique Gonzalez-FoersterArtistic Direction :Fabien Baron 	French, English
Elsa SchiaparelliParis, Elsa Schiaparelli 	200417 march29 agust 	Franco-American collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the first retrospective bringing together the two heritage collections bequeathed by the designer to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and to the Arts Décoratifs	Scenographers :Jacques Grange 	French, English
Design in Francede la France en Chine 	09 OctoberDecember 2004 	"Design in France", Fashion curator of the Inaugural Exhibition for the French Year in China 	 	French, Chinese
Jacqueline Kennedy, les Années Maison-BlancheParis, Jacqueline Kennedy, les Années Maison-Blanche	200219 November 200216 March 2003	Franco-American collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the John F. Kennedy Library retracing the signature of the First Lady of the United States's wardrobe and its political importance 	Scenographers :Pierre Charpin 	French, English
Sixties, mode d’emploiParis, Sixties, mode d’emploi 	2002November 200216 March 2003 	The design innovations and industry transformations of French fashion in the 1960s 	Scenographers :Pierre Charpin 	French
Category:1970 births
Category:People in fashion
Category:Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres