Open from November 7th, 2019 to March 22nd, 2020, Marche et Démarche at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, presented a global history of shoes and examined the influence they have had in modifying our bodies and our perception of self.
All tagged Exhibitions
Exhibition Review: The Tuxedo Redefined: Formality, Fluidity, and Femininity
For three and a half weeks in early 2020, long before our lives were shaken by a global pandemic, the shifting dynamics of formal dress were celebrated in The Tuxedo Redefined: Formality, Fluidity, and Femininity.
Clothes are transitive things in the slavery archive: Serving simultaneously as modes of identification for recapture and as critical expressions of identity and self-making.
Review: Virgil Abloh: "Figures of Speech"
Appropriately situated in Chicago, Abloh’s base (or close enough, as his hometown is actually Rockford, west of Chicago), Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” geographically positioned the ever-moving designer, his legacy and his work in a stationary institution meant for art.
Review: JAY JAXON: Fashion Designer, Le Couturier, Costumer
Jay Jaxon was not only the first American to head a Parisian couture house, but also the first black person to do so. Curiously, however, Jaxon’s name is often left out of the annals of fashion history. A recent exhibition at the Queens Library shines light on this often-overlooked figure.
Review: A Tale of Two Quants
More frequently than one might imagine, multiple fashion exhibitions on similar topics pop up around the same time. While it is not unusual for trends in fashion exhibitions to occur, it is somewhat unusual for two museums in the same city to be running concurrent exhibitions on almost the exact same subject.
Review: Gray Area: Authenticity, Value, and Subversion in Fashion
Gray Area uses technology, counterfeits, and even a pair of socks from Diet Prada to illustrate how many of the conversations we have within the field of fashion studies are not cut and dried but rather an intricately layered and varied dialogue.
Review: Femme Fatales: Strong Women in Fashion
Fashion is a powerful medium that permits the display of narrative by both its producers and consumers, and can be used to study our society, reading the past and present to try to imagine the future. But is there a difference between men and women in the use of fashion to communicate thoughts and express ideas?
Review: Caroline Broadhead: A Retrospective
The retrospective of over 45 years of Broadhead’s art is said to be the first collection that Lethaby has ever let take over their entire space. For them, it’s a celebration of a career that began with, and now retires in, the influence of jewelry.
Exhibition Review: Fashioned from Nature
The exhibition comprises 300 objects and spans a comprehensive timescale, from the 1600s to the present day. Arranged chronologically across two floors, the first part of the exhibition charts the relationship between fashion and industrialization, highlighting the use of nature both as a source of inspiration and exploitation.
Exhibition Review: Margiela the Hermes Years
The exhibition argues that a singular DNA weaves its way through these two branches of Margiela’s creative career, reconciling the apparent disjuncture between Margiela’s identity as a rebel against the fashion system and a designer for one of French fashion’s most patrimonial houses.
Exhibition Review: Margiela/Galliera 1989-2009
Visible structures and assemblages like ladders and plastic coverings litter the exhibition route, and remind the visitor of the exhibition’s temporariness; it is a place in transition and pregnant with possibility.
Exhibition Review: Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion
The MET (November 18, 2016-February 5, 2017)
Exhibition Review: The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined
Barbican Art Gallery (October 13, 2016-February 5, 2017)
Exhibition Review: Black Fashion Designers
The Museum at FIT (December 6, 2016-May 16, 2017)
Exhibition Review: Antonio Lopez: Future, Funk, Fashion
Museo del Barrio (June 14, 2016-November 27, 2016)
Exhibition Review: Hair by Sam McKnight
Somerset House (November 2, 2016-March 12, 2017)
Exhibition Review: Museum of Transology
Fashion Space Gallery at London College of Fashion (January 20-April 22, 2017)
Exhibition Review: PANTSULA 4 LYF: Popular Dance and Fashion in Johannesburg
Fowler Museum at UCLA (January 29 - May 7, 2017)
Exhibition Review: Paris Refashioned, 1957-1968
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (February 10-April 15, 2017)