Audrey Huset collects secondhand wool skirts throughout her life, preserving them so future generations have access to beautiful, high-quality wool. Toward the end of her life, her daughter and daughter-in-law organize the skirts by color. Now, her granddaughter, artist Mae Colburn, works with her family to catalog each skirt and moves the collection from Minnesota to her studio in Brooklyn, New York.

The 632 wool skirts in this collection span the 1940s to the 1990s, a period encompassing multiple waves of feminism, the expansion of global trade, and the rise of fast fashion. Today, the collection engages in a new era of debate over gender justice, trade regulation, and environmental impact — issues that call for humane, imaginative response.

"Wool Skirts" takes the skirts as canvas and the collection as a forum for prototyping fashion’s vital renewal. After ten months of intensive research around the question “What do we do with 632 wool skirts?” the exhibition presents a curated selection from the archive now available for the public to buy, alongside reimagined wool skirts by twenty-one international artists and designers. This is the first public presentation of Audrey’s collection, marking the beginning of its dispersal into the hands of a new generation.