Fashion Curators sit at a crossroads in the fashion industry and often work collaboratively with designers, academics, photographers and stylists. They are responsible for “curating” live fashion exhibitions. 

A curator may be working in house for a designer brand collecting and managing the brands collection of previous collections or reference garments. Two notable luxury brands who have curated large exhibitions are Jean Paul Gaultier and Dior. The coordination of these exhibitions may have been the work of one or more curators working on the entire show. They would be making decisions on what to show and how to show. Part of the reason for doing this to work on the brands recognition in a historical sense. These exhibitions also make a large impact on public perception of a brand.

If there were essential missing pieces that were required to tell the right story in the exhibitions, a curator would source additional pieces from collectors or museums.

A curator for an institution - like the Victoria & Albert Museum for example - would be managing a larger collection of multiples garments, reference artefacts for the institution's own collection.

In both cases, curators will need a combination of research and writing skills, along with knowledge of cultural history. And while specifically it is an archivist who takes care of preserving garments, knowledge required on how to best preserve fabrics and garment restoration.

 
Read more about curation roles here:
 
MA Fashion Curation (LCF)
 
The Courtauld Institute of Art