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Biography · Visual Arts
Christine Checinska
Biography
United Kingdom
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Biography
Christine Shaw-Checinska is a British Jamaican womenswear designer, curator and art historian. She is the inaugural Senior Curator of African and African Diaspora Fashion and Textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her work considers the relationship between cloth, culture and race.
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1982
1914–2003
