The cultural face of the arts and fashion that expose, inspire, and connect the creative world at large.
Must See Fashion Exhibit: San Francisco’s de Young Museum presents Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love, October 23, 2021 – April 24, 2022. First presented by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2014, the exhibition presents 80 fully accessorized ensembles, dating from 1984 to 1990, from the Philadelphia Museum archive of Kelly’s work.
Read more
Berlin fashion designers group exhibition Spring/Summer 2022. “We see it as our responsibility to support designers in Germany who have made it their mission to take a holistic approach to producing and operating as responsibly as possible. Der Berliner Salon offers a stage for the contemporary, future-focused design and craftsmanship created by these designers,” says […]
Read more
When we start to see how fashion serves a purpose in our culture and history, we begin to dismiss the frivolous segment of it and assimilate a more responsible and protective conduct. Fashion needs to be seen and not just a 20-minute catwalk or shopping spree. Museums are a cure for cultural curiosity. The old […]
Read more
Curating the body, creating around bodies, is not a typical conversation or exploration in fashion.
Read more
Fashion exhibitions at art galleries are the new black – Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art exhibit.
Read more
Textiles of historic traditional compositions and unparalleled beauty have been a marker of our time, and in some cases are modernized in transforming identity and culture.
Read more
Art fairs are a creative hub, not solely for art but for fashion, too. Both, visually stimulating, heighten the overall cultural experience.
Read more
Art fairs thrive when visitors experience emotional moments of engagement with the art and a sense of camaraderie among other attendees.
Read more
The experience of a fashion showcase doesn’t always come in a neat package of theatrical runway drama, museum exhibitions, or retail display windows. Fashion in the alley has a personality, energy, and engagement all of its own when witnessed in “the alley” as the behind-the-scene back stage to a fashion show.
Read more
Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art fashion exhibit, curated by Rhonda P. Hill
Read more
The power of fashion lies in its ability to transform identity and culture. GraySpace Gallery presents Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art fashion exhibit. As designer and creator of this exhibition, it uniquely spotlights the process and output of selected work of fashion designers Tingyue Jiang, Alena Kalana, Susan Tancer and Hera Zhou who blur the […]
Read moreFashion, like art, embodies the time we live in and society bears witness to the interpretation of its historical and cultural significance.
Rhonda P. Hill
Fashion, like art, embodies the time we live in and society bears witness to the interpretation of its historical and cultural significance.
Read more
By engaging both the visual and the performing arts, it also fosters a dialogue that reaches across the disciplines of art, music, theater, dance, and even fashion design. – Michael Govan, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Marc Chagall, Russian born artist, known for his figurative and narrative art, had a far-reaching engagement with music […]
Read more
In fashion, do we produce and consume too much of the color black? Do you know why black is used in the branding of Chanel, YSL, and Armani Exchange? How does the color spectrum affect consumer behavior?
Read more
Up to 95% of the textiles that are LAND-FILLED each year could be reused or recycled, according to Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles [SMART] One day you will have no use for what you wear. It could be in a few months or a few years. Where will you dispose of it? You say you […]
Read more
Recycle + UP-CYCLE = Metal Cloth Art Sustain the earth, move towards zero waste.
Read more
Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear 1715-2015, Los Angeles County Museum of Art [ LACMA] Exhibition, explores the history of men’s fashionable dress. Spanning 3 centuries of men’s fashion, this exhibition explores the looks of “dandy” to “mod” to “ultra chic” and how political and cultural influences shaped fashionable dress for men. 200 looks brilliantly curated, […]
Read more
I do not deal in trends. I deal in emotions. It’s about the emotion fashion gives you. – André Leon Talley, former American editor-at-large for Vogue magazine, curator Oscar de la Renta: The Retrospective The glamorous flow and flair of Oscar de la Renta. This de Young Museum, Oscar de la Renta: The Retrospective, exhibition generated […]
Read more
What is the magic behind the art of costuming? It’s magical by its very nature. In doing my research I learn about different cultures, different times. I work with and learn from all kinds of creative people and then create a magical experience for the audience. What could be better? – Alex Jaeger, Costume Designer
Read more
There is a strong parallel between the fashion industry and the art world. Emerging fashion designers and up-and-coming artists are mixing up the game and clearing the way for a new set of standards, aesthetics, and innovation. They are as significant as their established counterparts in making an impact to culture and history as those […]
Read more
When fashion articulates a new paradigm for style, transfiguring the norm with an expressive potency, great fashion attains covetable status and everlasting importance. – Marnie Fogg, author of When Fashion Really Works The everlasting importance of the most influential American and European designers of the last one hundred years—including Chanel, Givenchy, Dior, Gilbert Adrian, and Charles […]
Read more
As an artist slowly venturing herself into the mystical energy of Yin and Yang, the dualities of life and fascinating traditions of calligraphy and ink painting, I can’t help but to use this lens to analyze the latest exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC on China. The Met’s “China: Through the Looking Glass” should […]
Read more
Artist Teresita Fernandez once said, You don’t need a lot of friends or curators or patrons or a huge following, just a few that really believe in you. Graduates of all vocations, yet particularly those of the arts, don’t wait for one or two years to truly own your life, empower yourselves now! Whether it is […]
Read more
The power of fashion lies in its ability to transform identity and culture. There is a global phenomenon of fashion exhibitions at elite institutions the likes of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The Phoenix Art Museum is currently exhibiting, Fashioned in America, a fashion exhibition […]
Read more
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. — Sir Francis Bacon
Read more
I travel for inspiration, visiting historic sites and ancient cities; I do so to remove myself from the current season, empty my mind and work from a blank space. – Marion Ayonote, Footwear Designer | a quote from EDGE talks to Marion Ayonote Inspiration can be taking in what’s around you in the world, observing […]
Read more
An enchanted evening at the opening reception of Rebar, a solo show of Erik ReeL paintings, Friday 7 November 2014, Museum of Ventura County Tool Room Gallery, [a Coastal California Art Exhibition event].
Read more
I like seeing people using materials that one’s not accustomed to seeing in art. That has a particular value. New materials have fresh associations, physical properties and qualities that have built into them the possibility of forcing you or helping you do something else. — Robert Rauschenberg
Read more
Barbie® has been a muse to many artists over the past 5+ decades – including Andy Warhol and Peter Max. Over the years, Barbie® doll has always been a reflection of the times, art, and fashion whether following style trends or blazing her own fashion trail. Today, Barbie® is the most popular doll in the […]
Read more
How often do you get to view a collection of art that moves you in the purest of ways with warmth, passion, and determination? I appreciate the creative risk these 5 improvisational abstract painters took in pushing the boundaries of authentic expression with the end result in their work. As artists, they manifest their personal […]
Read more
Photo ©Desiree HernandezE D G E was there, at Standing In Boots art exhibit! What a unique and pure experience of like minds and creative energy; “awe” in viewing the art; sharing; visiting with old and new; and collaboration. Oh my, what a night to remember of the high you felt while there and after […]
Read more