About Laura McLaws Helms
About Sighs & Whispers
Sighs & Whispers is a weekly newsletter from Laura McLaws Helms. I am a fashion/cultural historian, researcher and writer based in New York.
With a particular interest in fashion, culture, women’s issues, design and magazines in the twentieth century, my work delves into all of these areas and illuminates their intersections. I have acted as an exhibition curator and design consultant to stylists, editors and designers within the film, advertising and fashion industries. Amongst my previous work, I curated an exhibition, Thea Porter: 70s Bohemian Chic, at the Fashion & Textile Museum in London (2015), and wrote an accompanying monograph, Thea Porter: Bohemian Chic, published by V & A Publications.
Why Sighs & Whispers
In 2006 I started a fashion and cultural history blog called Sighs & Whispers, which was really my first small step into becoming a historian—it was named after the lingerie catalogue Guy Bourdin photographed for Bloomingdale's in 1976.