Hong Kong Palace Museum | HKPM Special Exhibition Talk Series: The Adorned Body—Exhibiting French Fashion, Jewellery, and Accessories

Dr Denis Bruna

Head Curator, Fashion and Textiles Department, pre-1800 collections
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

Dr Denis Bruna is Head Curator, Fashion and Textiles department, for the pre-1800 collections at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. He trained at the École du Louvre and Sorbonne University, was professor of art history, and joined the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2011. Dr Bruna has made a significant contribution to the history of fashion by organising exhibitions such as Fashioning the Body: An Intimate History of the Silhouette (2013), Proper Dressing Required: When Clothes Made Scandal (2016), Walking and Gait: A History of Footwear (2019), and Hair and Body Hair (2023). He is also a professor of fashion and clothing history and director of research at the École du Louvre.

Mathieu Rousset-Perrier

Heritage Curator, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Jewellery collections
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

Mathieu Rousset-Perrier is one of the world’s foremost experts on historical European jewellery. Educated at the prestigious École du Louvre, Mr Rousset-Perrier has led major cultural and heritage projects for the City of Paris, the Grand Est Region, and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. As a curator at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, he is responsible for the Middle Ages Renaissance collection, as well as the jewellery collection, which are among the finest across Europe.

Dr Ingrid Yeung

Associate Curator
Hong Kong Palace Museum

Dr Ingrid Yeung studied Korean and Japanese art history and earned her master’s degree at SOAS, University of London, before receiving a doctorate in Chinese art and archaeology at Yale University. She worked at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, before coming to the Hong Kong Palace Museum. At the Museum she curated the exhibitions “Grand Gallop: Art and Culture of the Horse” and “Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London”.