American Beauty Exhibit Opens at FIT Today
posted by trish
This is an exhibit I don’t want to miss. It’s already inspiring me to want to drape all day today. I love when the muslin’s are included, it is fashion’s version of being unplugged. It is raw and there is no hiding poor quality with a muslin. My next fashion show will include muslins on the runway with the finished garments.
American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion opens today Nov. 6, at the Museum at FIT and will run through April 10, 2010.
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) presents American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion, the first exhibition to explore how the “philosophy of beauty” is allied to the craft of dressmaking. Each of the 75 looks on display was chosen to exemplify the relationship between technical ingenuity and artistic excellence. Curator Patricia Mears has focused on approximately 25 American fashion designers, ranging from the obscure, such as Jessie Franklin Turner, whose work dates from the late 1910s, to rising stars of the present day, such as the Mulleavy sisters of Rodarte. Other designers featured include Adrian, Bonnie Cashin, Maria Cornejo, James Galanos, Halston, Elizabeth Hawes, Charles James, Charles Kleibacker, Claire McCardell, Norman Norell, Rick Owens, Ralph Rucci, Isabel Toledo, Pauline Trigère, Valentina, Yeohlee, and Jean Yu. Read more…
