Patrick Kelly (1954–1990) also loved “Fried Catfish, Fried Chicken and “Foie Gras” …, Buttons and Bows, Pearls and Popcorn, Madame Grès, “I Love Lucy”, Bette Davis, Martin Luther King, and All Women (Fat, Skinny, and Between…).”¹
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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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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
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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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V&A Fashion in Motion | Video Archive
Fashion is an art form. Performance art – live mannequin presentation – at its best. Central Saint Martins’ Design Students Present Fashion in Motion. To coincide with the V&A’s exhibition, ‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’, the Fashion in Motion event presented a unique selection of 20 outfits, created by students in the Central Saint Martins’ […]
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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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Mass Production: The Imperfection of the Art | EDGE Talks to Tíngyuè Jǐang
There are economic, ethical, cultural, and design issues around mass production, particularly mass produced fashion. Aside from its social issues, fashion that is mass produced can be very expected, uninspiring, conforming, and blasé, you get the picture, and tends to be of lower-quality. Do we ever think of the actual makers of these mass produced […]
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Unconventional Is the Norm | EDGE Talks to Alena Kalana
One thing I want to do is figure out a better way to leave less of a footprint. I am not at all interested in mass production. What I create is art. – Alena Kalana A high school fashion course led Alena Kalana to give fashion design a serious thought. This award winning designer’s passion […]
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Art and Its Magical Therapy | EDGE Talks to Susan Tancer
Brain cancer survivor, Susan Tancer, creates one-of-a-kind functional art. Painting became a therapeutic escape from cancer treatment. After being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2004, this former marketing and public relations professional developed a passion for painting. Suffering from the effects of chemotherapy, painting seemed the one thing to take her mind off of it. This […]
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The Mastering of Fashion Design | EDGE Talks to Hera Zhou
This was an experience that you can’t get in school; it is like a master teaching their apprentice. – Hera Zhou “Being in Paris is a dream city for a fashion designer”, says Hera Zhou, and she seized the opportunity with no hesitation. Imagine working at the Louvre Museum, looking at sketches from famed couture […]
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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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