Join Art in Odd Places: DRESS ~ October 13-15 + The Paper Dress Ball on October 14th

 

 

 

Ankon Mitra, Inhabiting a Fractal Pyramid, AiOP 2023: DRESS, courtesy of the artist

Join Art in Odd Places for its eighteenth annual outdoor public visual and performance art festival, taking place on select blocks each day along 14th Street in Manhattan from October 13-15, with the Paper Dress Ball on October 14th.

Artists will unfold their creative interpretation of the theme ‘DRESS’ in the form of garments, textile, fashion design, costume, performance, sculpture and installation.

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The Trashion Fashion Show on October 7th at The Dwyer Cultural Art Center in Harlem

 

 

 

Trashion Fashion Show

It’s a movement! From Ed Molina’s East Harlem DSNY Trash Museum to your trash can, here’s a thoughtful and fun way to focus on our environment, creating everything from art and jewelry to fashion by upcycling what has been historically just tossed.

Now, after months of collaborative trashion design workshops, and weather cancellations, the much anticipated Trashion Fashion Show has been rescheduled for Saturday, October 7th indoors at The Dwyer Cultural Art Center in Harlem, when the fashionistas will take to the runway from 3:00 to 3:30pm.

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Get Ready for a Little Trashion Fashion ~ at The Dwyer in Harlem August 8th

 

 

 

The ‘Fantastic Plastic’ dress from Virginia Beach fashion designer Sonya Phillips, worn by model Queen Ayesha at Virginia Fashion Week. SONYA PHILLIPS

It’s a Movement with a focus on our environment ~ Trashion Fashion ~ a whimsical and fun way to create everything from art, jewelry and fashion by way of upcycling what was historically thrown in the garbage heap.

Next Up ~ August 8th

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‘Africa Fashion’ to Open at The Brooklyn Museum in June

 

 

 

Gouled Ahmed (born Djibouti, 1992). Self Portrait, Addis Foam, Ethiopia, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.

Making its North American debut in Brooklyn, the exhibition features over 180 works, including fashion, music, film, visual art, and photography, as well as textiles and jewelry from the Museum’s Arts of Africa collection. The exhibition will open on June 23rd.

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NYCxDesign + SVA Present Art History 101: A Brush with Fashion on Madison Ave Extended to July 8th

 

 

 

Baroque ~ Art History 101; A Brush with Fashion

In honor of NYC BID Day and NYCxDesign 2023, The School of Visual Arts and NYCxDesign unveiled Art History 101: A Brush with Fashion, presented by students of the Design Department at the School of Visual Arts under the direction of Professor Kevin T. O’Callaghan. The installations are on view from 61st Street to 77th Street along Madison Avenue. The exhibit has been extended to July 8, 2023.

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Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

 

 

Marquee: Composite Image, 2023. Photographed by Julia Hetta. Photo © Julia Hetta

The Costume Institute’s spring 2023 exhibition will examine the work of Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019). Focusing on the designer’s stylistic vocabulary as expressed in aesthetic themes that appear time and again in his fashions from the 1950s to his final collection in 2019, the show will spotlight the German-born designer’s unique working methodology. The exhibition will be on view from May 5th through July 16th, 2023.

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Explore the Whimsical & Experimental World of 1960s Paper Fashion at Museum of Arts and Design

 

 

 

Installation view of Generation Paper: Fast Fashion of the 1960s, 2021; Phoenix Art Museum. Image © Phoenix Art Museum.

On view from March 18 to August 27, 2023, at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), Generation Paper: A Fashion Phenom of the 1960s explores the era’s short-lived phenomenon of paper fashion through more than 80 rare garments and accessories crafted from non-woven textiles. These fashions, introduced in 1966 as a promotional campaign for Scott Paper Company, combined bold, graphic design with space-age innovations in materials. Surfacing a little-known chapter in the history of design, Generation Paperilluminates the creative partnerships of craft and commerce in the development of semi-synthetic and synthetic materials.

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Just in Time for Fashion Week ~ ‘Shoes: Anatomy, Identity, Magic’ Opens at The Museum at FIT

 

 

 

Manolo Blahnik, evening shoes, 2017. Gift of Manolo Blahnik.

The Museum at FIT presents Shoes: Anatomy, Identity, Magic, an innovative exhibition that explores our physical, social, and psychological relationship with footwear. Curated by Dr. Valerie Steele, MFIT director and chief curator, and Colleen Hill, curator of costume and accessories, the exhibition features more than 300 of the 5,000 pairs of shoes, boots, sandals, and sneakers in the museum’s permanent collection, aka “the closet.”

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The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents ‘Crafting Fashion for Possible Futures’

 

 

 

Credit: SUSANNE BISOVSKY © BERND PREIML

What can fashion design really do right now? is the intrinsic question that arises in a time of chronic political, environmental, health, and social struggles amidst lingering fears of an imminent crisis.

With the exhibition Crafting Fashion for Possible Futures, curated by Camille Boyer and Miriam Kathrein for the Austrian Fashion Association, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of contemporary Austrian fashion design and shows that design holds the potential for change and possible, better futures. The exhibition has been extended through September 30, 2022.

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The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher Textiles and Fashion at Czech Center New York

 

 

Screen-printed Giselle silk crepe, 1969, © Peter Ascher. Photo © The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, Ondřej Kocourek, Ascher Family Archive

Czech Center New York in collaboration with UPM, The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague presents “Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher Textiles and Fashion,” the first U.S. exhibition focused on the life and work of Zika and Lida Ascher, a husband-and-wife duo who left Czechoslovakia before the outbreak of WW2 and built a textile empire in the United Kingdom, which supplied fabrics to the international fashion industry. The exhibition will be on view March 25-May 20, 2022.

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FIT Art & Design Gallery Presents ‘Asian Americans in New York Fashion: Design, Labor, Innovation’

 

 

Celebrating the Asian American community’s significant contributions to the fashion industry, and fashion in New York, The Fashion Institute of Technology’s (FIT) School of Graduate Studies, in collaboration with The Museum at FIT (MFIT), will open its doors to the exhibition, Asian Americans in New York Fashion: Design, Labor, Innovation.

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East Village Hats hosts Pop-Up of Renowned Milliner, Rod Keenan Hats on March 5-7, 2021

 

 

 

Rod Keenan, Milliner

Woooo ~ East Village Hats will be hosting a weekend pop-up of Milliner, Rod Keenan hats! The event will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 5, 6, and 7 from Noon to 6:00pm.

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About Time: Fashion & Duration to Open at The MET

 

 

(Left) Timeline: Viktor & Rolf (Dutch, founded 1993). Ensemble, spring/summer 2005. Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands.
(Right) Interruption: Madeleine Vionnet (French, 1876–1975). Evening dress, 1939. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Harrison Williams, 1952 (C.I.52.24.2a, b)

The Costume Institute’s upcoming exhibition About Time: Fashion and Duration (on view October 29, 2020 to February 7, 2021) will trace 150 years of fashion, from 1870 to the present, along a disrupted timeline, in honor of the Museum’s 150th anniversary. Employing philosopher Henri Bergson’s concept of la durée—the continuity of time—the exhibition will explore how clothes generate temporal associations that conflate the past, present, and future. The concept will also be examined through the writings of Virginia Woolf, who will serve as the exhibition’s “ghost narrator.”

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Nordstrom NYC + Souleo = the Exhibition ‘Styling’ at 57th Street Store

 

 

 

Margaret Rose Vendryes, Igbo Billy – Billy Porter, 2020.

Styling: Black Expression, Rebellion, and Joy Through Fashion will be presented at Nordstrom NYC from September 17 to October 29, 2020. The exhibition, presented in partnership with Long Gallery Harlem and curated by Souleo, is a celebratory exploration of style within Black culture as a historical form of creative expression; rebellion against oppression; and source of joy. The show is also available at online partner Artsy, where you can discover and collect the exhibited works through a viewing room.

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Who’s Your Hero ~ from The BunnFunn Collection at Port Authority for Mother’s Day

 

 

 

BunnFunn for Mother’s Day at Port Authority

For all who enjoyed Sara Bunn’s Women’s History Month exhibition entitled A Day in the Life of Seneca Village, you will love what come’s next ~ an ode to Mother’s Day, and the question ~ Who’s Your Hero.

Follow along on our trip to Port Authority for a little BunnFunn for Mother’s Day.

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CAMP: Notes on Fashion opening at The Met

 

 

 

Jeremy Scott (American, born 1975) for House of Moschino (Italian, founded 1983). Ensemble, spring/summer 2018. Courtesy of Moschino. Photo © Johnny Dufort, 2019

Through more than 250 objects dating from the seventeenth century to the present, The Costume Institute’s spring 2019 exhibition will explore the origins of camp’s exuberant aesthetic. Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay “Notes on ‘Camp‘” provides the framework for the exhibition, which examines how the elements of irony, humor, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality, and exaggeration are expressed in fashion.

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‘The Art of Fashion’ Coming to the JoAnne Artman Gallery during NYFW

 

 

 

JoAnne Artman Gallery

In conjunction with New York Fashion Week, JoAnne Artman Gallery will open its doors to the exhibition, The Art of Fashion, featuring recent works by Jane Maxwell. Assorted works by artist Pedro Bonnin will also be on display in the gallery’s Projects Space.

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Obsessorize Arrives on Madison Avenue in October

 

 

Obsessorize 2018 between 58th/59th Streets on Madison Avenue

Update ~ Obsessorize/Dashing Through New York is currently on view at SVA Gramercy Gallery, 209 East 23rd Street, in the Lobby, through Saturday, March 9, 2019.

Organized by the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District and Marie Claire magazine, Obsessorize will feature 28 giant sculptures (eight-feet high) created by students at The School of Visual Arts (SVA). The 28 students were inspired by head-to-toe accessories, taking inspiration from past decades of iconic accessories. The results will be enclosed in plexiglass cases. Obsessorize will be on view from October 4 to October 30, free and open to the public located on Madison Avenue between East 57th and East 86th Streets.

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Here’s a Best-Kept Shopping Secret ~ Dover Street Market NYC

 

 

Dover Street Market NYC, 160 Lexington Avenue ~ 1st Floor ~ Comme Des Garçons Homme Plus Fall 2018 Menswear is coming soon

The high-fashion, multi-brand retailer, Dover Street Market, began in London in 2004. It then opened in Tokyo, Singapore, Los Angeles, and a historic building in New York City.

Come along with us on our trek through seven floors of fabulous wears…..

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Gucci + Harlem’s Dapper Dan ~ It’s Official

 

 

 

Billboard corner of Lenox Avenue + 125th Street, January 2018

It’s official ~ Gucci and Dapper Dan aka Daniel Day opened a boutique on Lenox Avenue in Harlem in 2018, in the neighborhood where he created his style back in the 1980’s.

In addition, the iconic Harlemite has penned a book entitled Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir.  Save the Date, Thursday, December 5, 2019 for a book signing from 6-9:30pm just down the block at NiLu Gift Shop, 191 Malcolm X Blvd, between 119th/120th Streets in Harlem.

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