Clothing has many meanings within our culture. What differentiates clothing from fashion, and fashion from costume, and costume from art? It is the play between all these areas that intrigues me the most. When can clothing be all of these things? When can it be none or something all together different?
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Art of the In Between, Rei Kawakubo, Metropolitan Museum of Art
"The galleries illustrate the designer's revolutionary experiments in "in-betweenness"—the space between boundaries. Objects are organized into nine aesthetic expressions of interstitiality in Kawakubo's work: Absence/Presence, Design/Not Design, Fashion/Anti-Fashion, Model/Multiple, Then/Now, High/Low, Self/Other, Object/Subject, and Clothes/Not Clothes. Kawakubo breaks down the imaginary walls between these dualisms, exposing their artificiality and arbitrariness."
Living Modern, Georgia O'Keeffe, Brooklyn Museum
Sorry this is a throwback from early summer, I went to a wonderful exhibition at the Brooklyn museum about Georgia O'Keeffe in a full 360 view. It displayed not only her artwork, but also the clothes she wore. Really wonderful portrait of her as an artist and a person.
"Love is Love" Jean Paul Gaultier at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
"Around a monumental wedding cake, Love Is Love features Jean Paul Gaultier’s most beautiful bridal creations. Their daring lines and exquisite artistry bear witness to the eccentricity of this iconoclastic designer who is renowned for his spectacular silhouettes as well as his humanist, inclusive vision. This celebration of marriage and love brings together heterosexual, homosexual, intercultural and interracial couples in diversity and peace."
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