Women’s History Museum was founded by Mattie Barringer (b. 1990) and Amanda McGowan (b. 1990) in 2015 out of the desire to create novel and previously unseen images of beauty. The duo engages with fashion as a medium that has the potential to exist beyond regurgitative spectacle and the ability to change the fabric of reality. Their art practice, which includes sculpture, film, painting, drawing, photography, and performance, is dictated by meticulously sourced historical materials and close collaborations with other artists who often double as models in their fashion shows. In an effort to encompass the psychic reality of fashion and foster a creative community, they interrogate the idea of the museum and insist on alternative and inclusive methods of recording history.

Company Gallery

New York City

Paris

Freedman Fitzpatrick

Los Angeles

Karma International

Joe Sheftel Gallery

Gavin Brown’S Enterprise

Baltimore

Springsteen Gallery

San Francisco

De Young Museum

Romeo

Zürich

Luma Westbau

Womens History Museum

Grisette shoes 

Trophy Wife (Minirock)

Ne S'use Pas

Grisette shoes

The Massive Disposal of Experience, Movie Poster

The Secret Litter of My Metropolitan Fashion Life