This year the range of fashion exhibitions include a doll, Barbie®, a model, Naomi Campbell, Diné (Navajo) textile and fashion designs, and the establishment – Chanel and Balenciaga.
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A Fanciful Fashion Feast | The Art of Upcycling by Narci Lee
Whatever happened to the upcycle queen, Narci Lee, who reclaims unwanted garments, household linens, and textile waste we call rags or remnants, that most of us would throw out?
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Can the beauty of art and the consciousness of artists negate the power of the apocalypse?
What’s So Lovely About the End of the World?
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“What’s So Lovely …?” The Making of “Vivi Ann”.
Portland, Oregon-based abstract painter, Erik ReeL, and Ventura, California-based fashion designer, Narci Lee, combined their ecological ethos and improvisational instincts to create a work of art out of discarded textiles, designed to be worn (and talked about) as a socio-ecological statement.
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Museum Crawl: MUST See 2023 FASHION Exhibits | CLOTH, Construct, CULTURE; Anne Lowe: American Couturier; Africa Fashion, and more
Parallax Art Center, Portland, Oregon, presents “CLOTH, Construct, CULTURE: fashion builds a story”, a first of its kind, showcasing beautifully designed collections from a select group of contemporary international designers who are shaping how culture is represented through fashion. Concerned with cultural, ecological, and sociological issues about the world we live in, Kyle Denman, Isabella […]
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Museum Crawl: MUST See 2022 FASHION Exhibits – Africa Fashion, Virgil Abloh, McQueen, Guo Pei, and 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 ecosystem-protective conduct.
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Museum Destiny: The Case for Contemporary Fashion
Curating the body, creating around bodies, is not a typical conversation or exploration in fashion. But it is one of the most important art forms because society can reflect how it defines the spirit or mood of an era; how it can identify culture, social behavior, and economic status. Fashion has that power. Like art, […]
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Dressed in COSTUME: The VISUAL Communication of Performance ART
LIGHTS, CAMERA, COSTUMES! Welcome to the stage. That’s the feeling I got when I stepped into the exhibit Wearable Art/Costume Design. I didn’t know what to expect of a fashion exhibit located at Chapel Theatre, a performance arts space near Portland, Oregon.
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Museum Crawl: Must See Fashion Exhibits 2021/22
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 […]
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Alena Kalana | Tibetan Transplant
Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art, [far left] Alena Kalana and Hera Zhou, designers
Hera Zhou | The Wave
Tingyue Jiang | Erik ReeL paintings
Tingyue Jiang | Erik ReeL paintings
Tingyue Jiang | painting by Erik ReeL | photo Charlene Broudy | GraySpace Gallery
Alena Kalana | Tibetan Transplant
Alena Kalana, Tibetan Transplant
Alena Kalana
Opening Reception
The Art of Fashion | Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art
Fashion exhibitions at art galleries are the new black – Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art exhibit.
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The Bold, The Beautiful, The Brilliant: Ikats from Central Asia
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.
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Tour the Gallery | Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art
Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art fashion exhibit, curated by Rhonda P. Hill
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Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art | Exhibiting Culture Through Fashion
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 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 distinction between […]
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Fashion and Society – A Constant State of Interpretation | 배혜진 HYEE JIN BAE, An Artist’s Perspective
Fashion, like art, embodies the time we live in and society bears witness to the interpretation of its historical and cultural significance.
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Chagall – Fusion of Design: Costume, Performance and Visual Art
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 and […]
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Take a LOOK. . .The History and High Fashion of Menswear | ‘Reigning Men’ Exhibition
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, […]
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Oscar de la Renta, The Exhibition, Through My Eyes as a Visual Artist
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 […]
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Fashion Beyond The Runway | The Art Gallery
The gallery and museum venue represent a new era of exposition for emerging designers. Fashion designers are part of the creative community and as artists can showcase their work beyond the ‘runway’.
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‘High Style’| Masterworks of Fashion That Defined Cultural Changes
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 […]
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The Oxymoron in “China: Through the Looking Glass”
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 […]
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EDGE at “Fashioned In America”
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 […]
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Fashion Beyond the Art Form | Part III
EDGE champions the gallery and museum venue as a new era of exposition for emerging designers. Fashion is an expression and designers are artists. Shows can be curated with a collective vision of both a historical context and a relevance to contemporary culture. The Met and V&A are landmark institutions that exhibit fashion, but the […]
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Fashion Beyond the Art Form | Part II
EDGE champions the gallery and museum venue as a new era of exposition for emerging designers. Fashion designers are artists. Shows can be curated with a collective vision of both a historical context and a relevance to contemporary culture. How does this transform? Emerging designers lack exposure and distribution to the local and international communities. […]
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Fashion Beyond The Art Form | Part I
The power of fashion lies in its power 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. As crowds, who appreciate and are fascinated with fashion, pour into museums and […]
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery – “Black Dress: Ten Contemporary Fashion Designers”
As an art enthusiast, I love attending art exhibits at galleries and museums. When it comes to fashion exhibitions at these institutions, it is typically the history of a fashion genre, designer, or culture. Rarely do you see an event with current contemporary designers exhibiting what’s culturally relevant today, and rarer, one of Black designers. […]
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