Curatorial tour of the exhibition "The Fashion System" led by Paweł Michna in English

▪ This is a story about why fashion and clothing are essential parts of Holocaust history — and why they were overlooked for so long.

▪ What happened that allowed this topic to resurface? What can it reveal? From the exhibition emerges a portrait of the ghetto that, until now, remained buried in archives and academic texts — finally bringing to light an important chapter in the history of Łódź. Paweł Michna, co-curator of the exhibition alongside Karolina Sulej, will demonstrate how much can be uncovered through these traces and explain how it came to be that exhibitions, lookbooks, product photography, lingerie, and powder tins were created in the ghetto.

▪ Paweł Michna will delve into how, beneath this visual and material facade, systems of violence and death were concealed.

INFO:
📅 When: 30 August (Saturday) at 1:30 p.m.
✅ Tickets: regular 38 PLN | reduced 28 PLN
▶ Tickets are available at the Museum ticket office and at bilety.cmwl.pl.

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This event is part of the commemoration of the 81st anniversary of the liquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto.


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The Fashion System. Clothes in strategies of violence and survival tactics in the Łódź Ghetto
3.04.2025-1.02.2026

Curators : Karolina Sulej, Paweł Michna
Substantive cooperation: Marcin Gawryszczak
Exhibition coordinator: Aleksandra Kmiecik
Visual identity: Gra-Fika
Exhibition architecture: Koziej Architekci

Artists: Paulina Buźniak, Krzysztof Gil, Zuzanna Hertzberg, Małgorzata Markiewicz, Witek Orski, Agnieszka Wach i Błażej Worsztynowicz, Paweł Żukowski

You may also like the following events from Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa / Central Museum of Textiles:

• Next Friday, 29th August, 03:30 pm, „Mnie nie trzeba kochać, mnie trzeba rozumieć.” - działanie artystyczne Zuzanny Hertzberg in Lodz

Also check out other Exhibitions in Lodz.