All-women design shows are "snowballing" in New York following Trump inauguration
Multiple female-only design exhibitions have opened in New York as designers and curators aim to highlight the "inequities that still exist" in the industry.
During this month's NYCxDesign festival, two major shows are featuring only female designers. Egg Collective's Designing Women includes work by 15 New York-based individuals and studios, while Chamber's A Room With Its Own Rules brings together items by women from around the world.
On top of this, design store The Future Perfect is displaying furniture by all-female studio Rooms, while Lindsey Adelman and Bec Brittain have put on their own shows.
This follows a surge of women-only design exhibitions elsewhere in the world, many of which were spurred by the inauguration of President Trump earlier this year, and subsequent wave of global protests and "women's marches". Egg Collective founders Hillary Petrie, Crystal Ellis and Stephanie Beamer organised the Designing Women exhibition, on show in New York this month
The trio opened its first Designing Women exhibition at the beginning of May, with the aim to bring together and support New York's female designers, as well as raise money for a local girls charity.
They invited women they knew in the industry to participate, and received and "overwhelmingly positive response". Since opening, feedback from others in the community and show attendance have also been affirming.
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