In person / Pop-up Activation / Stitching
Kate Sekules of Visible Mend will be in attendance as Dr. Mend, prescribing “mendication” with custom Rx for your injured clothes. Learn mending techniques in a one to one consultation.
No registration required.
KATE SEKULES
Kate Sekules is a mending and fashion historian, professor, and practitioner. She lectures widely, runs frequent events and repair clinics, including Dr Mend’s clothes surgeries and the monthly Darn It! club at Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, and hosts #MendMarch on Instagram. She has published and presented academic research at over two dozen symposia internationally, is completing her doctoral dissertation, A History and Theory of Mending at Bard Graduate Center, NYC, and teaches fashion history—and mending—at Pratt Institute, Parsons and BGC. She is author of MEND! A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto (Penguin, 2020)
A.MANO Brooklyn is a creatively curated home décor shop featuring work by local Brooklyn artists, vintage finds and up-cycled fine furniture. We also have fun and clever gifts, stationery products and garden items.
The store opened in 2020 as an e-commerce brand called Cain Sloan, which was a department store founded by my great grandfather in Nashville, TN in 1903. When we moved into the new retail space at 585 Dean Street I rebranded as A.MANO Brooklyn to reflect the handmade nature of the work available in the store.