Great blog post about the food-themed fashions being cooked up by designers! Ted Sabarese contacted the CEO of SOTU productions to help with this project. The artichoke dress in this series, for example, took six hours to construct and was designed by Daniel Feld and Wesley Nault of Project Runway. http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/12/03/131760743/fashionfood Continue reading
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Open House at the Bard Graduate Center Sunday, December 5
Open House at the Bard Graduate Center Sunday, December 5, 2010 11 AM The Bard Graduate Center invite you to their upcoming Open House. This event provides a great opportunity to meet some of their faculty members as well as to ask questions to both the Dean of the Bard Graduate Center, Professor Peter Miller, … Continue reading
Bergdorf Goodman windows honor Sondheim with clothes and imagery inspired by his work
Walking past Bergdorf Goodman one night, I was came across these window displays honoring Stephen Sondheim. The windows featured clothing and imagery inspired by Sondheim’s works. My favorites were those of Al Hirschfeld illustrations, the venerated cartoonist, which were black and white themed. For more photos, go to broadwayworld.com’s site: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Coverage_Bergdorf_Goodman_Honors_Sondheim_with_Window_Displays_20100421 Continue reading
Gazette du Bon Ton on ARTstor
http://www.artstor.org/what-is-artstor/w-html/col-gazette.shtml Through these prints, La Gazette du Bon Ton readers were offered glimpses of upper class life, manners, social environments, and leisure pursuits. As such, the Gazette du Bon Ton illustrations are a unique visual record of fashion and high society in early 20th century France, from the last years of the Belle Epoque to … Continue reading
In the Mood: 1940s
http://www.phxart.org/exhibition/exhibitioninthemood.php Ellman Fashion Design Gallery April 3, 2010 – August 15, 2010 Strong-shouldered suits with hats and gloves, and slinky, draped gowns recall the glamour of 1940s fashion. Wartime rationing created restrictions on the amount of material which could be used in a garment, and fostered an atmosphere of patriotic ingenuity and understatement. Women were … Continue reading
Metropolitan Museum Announces Exhibition Based on Renowned Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection
Major Yves Saint Laurent Retrospective Set to Open in March
New York Fashion, Costumes, and Textiles
New York Fashion, Costumes, and Textiles Collection Unparalleled for their splendor, documentation, and extraordinary level of preservation, the 27,000 objects of the Costume Collection not only chronicle the stylistic evolution of our nation’s fashion capital, but proffer an intimate insight into the social history of its populace. Its holdings betray the aspirational nature of fashion, … Continue reading
FREE ACCESS TO THE BHA
THE GETTY PROVIDES FREE ACCESS TO THE BHA ON ITS WEB SITE As of April 1, 2010, the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) will be available free of charge on the Getty Web site at http://library.getty.edu/bha . Free Web access to BHA is an advantage not only to all traditional users of the … Continue reading
Liquid Sky: Interview with Slava Tsukerman
Wonderful interview with Slava Tsukerman by Brigitte Nicole from Opening Ceremony about Tsukerman’s brilliant 1982 post-punk new-wave movie Liquid Sky. One of my all-time favorite movies, it addresses everything from gender to class issues as well as ideas of the alienation/other and stereotypes. http://www.openingceremony.us/entry.asp?pid=653 Continue reading
Object of Fashion 