Christine Checinska

Christine Checinska
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of London (PhD)
University of the West of England, Bristol (BA, MA)
ThesisColonizin in reverse! The creolised aesthetic of the empire windrush generation. (2010)
WebsiteChristine Checinska

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.