MoMu & VAi Talk: Crafting space. On the interplay between fashion, interior and gender

Programme

• 7:00 PM: Exhibition & MoMu Café open

• 8:00 – 9:00 PM: Panel discussion

• 9:00 – 9:30 PM: Audience Q&A

• 9:00 – 10:30 PM: Exhibition & MoMu Café remain open

• 11:00 PM: MoMu closes

Lois Weinthal

Lois Weinthal is Professor and Programme Director of Interior Design at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on the intersections between architecture, interiors, fashion, and objects. Her practice explores layering and form through techniques and references drawn from both fashion and architecture. Her book Toward a New Interior? An Anthology of Interior Design Theory (2011) is considered a seminal work in the field, presenting the interior as a series of eight concentric layers, with clothing understood as the first ‘interior space’ surrounding the body.

Read more about her perspective on interior & fashion:

• Weinthal, Lois (ed.). (2011) Toward a New Interior. An Anthology of Interior Design Theory, New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

• Weinthal, Lois. (2011) “Interior-Scapes”. In Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture. Edited by Lori A. Brown, 139–54. London: Routledge.

• Weinthal, Lois. (2015) “The Interior’s Second Skin”. In Textile Technology and Design: From Interior Space to Outer Space. Edited by Deborah Schneiderman and Alexa Griffith Winton, 45-56. London: Bloomsbury Publishers.

• Weinthal, Lois & Anderson, Jonathan (eds.). (2022) Digital Fabrication in Interior Design. Body, Object, Enclosure. New York: Routledge.

Nina Serulus

Katarina Nina Serulus is a freelance researcher and curator in design and architecture, with a focus on the relationship between design, culture, society, and gender. In 2020, while working at VAi, she initiated the project Wiki Women Design, which brought overlooked female architects and designers back into the spotlight. Together with Javier Gimeno-Martinez and Marjan Sterckx, she co-curated Untold Stories. Women Designers in Belgium, 1880–1980 (Design Museum Brussels, 2024–2025), the first exhibition to highlight the work of over fifty female Belgian designers for a wide audience.

Read more about her perspective on design and gender:

• Serulus, Katarina, Sterckx, Marjan & Gimeno-Martinéz, Javier. (2025) Untold Stories. Women Designers in Belgium. Brussels: CFC Editions.

• Guest co-editor together with Marjan Sterckx and Javier Gimeno-Martínez of the special issue ‘Vrouwen en design in België’ in Tijdschrift voor Interieurgeschiedenis en Design, no. 45 (2023)

• Serulus, Katarina. (2018). Club Culture, New Beat, and Belgian Fashion. In Kries, Mateo, Jochen Eisenbrand and Cat Rossi (Eds.), Night Fever. Design Club Culture 1960-today. Weil am Rhein: Vitra Design Museum.

Julie Kegels

Belgian designer Julie Kegels, a graduate of the Fashion Department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, launched her own label in 2024. During Paris Fashion Week in March 2025, she presented her FW25 collection, inspired by Executive Style (1980) by Judith Price. Her work explored how design shapes identity and brought fashion and interior design together through elements such as a wooden dress and chair prints. Her creations blur the boundaries between fashion and spatial design.