aspect of our lives, from the clothes we select each day to the colorful food packaging in our local grocery stores. “Humans have an impulse to create and regardless of culture, of time period, or even materials, there is something unifying in the way in which we express ourselves through fashion and design,” says Petra Slinkard, the Nancy B. Putnam Curator of Fashion and Textiles and director of Curatorial Affairs at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM). Slinkard was hired in February 2018 to mastermind
