January 23, 2011
In BlogJanuary 23rd, 2011
I’m busy working on lots of terrific projects – including the Daphne Guinness exhibition and book, and also the museum’s Masterpiece book. Yesterday we threw a “birthday party” for Christian Dior at the Museum; Fred Dennis and I showed five of our beautiful Dior dresses to eight members of the Couture Council.
I saw an interesting show at the Museum of Art and Design on the Global Africa Project, with one of Nick Cave’s art costumes, clothing by Black Coffee, photographs by Daniele Tamagni, and Sheila Bridges’ very-cool Harlem Toile de Jouy.
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1. Art Ford | February 5th, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Valerie,
Could you post a link to those 5 Dior dresses?
2. eva heller | February 11th, 2011 at 7:06 am
I have a dress with jacket designed by Pauline Trigere made with wool and mink. I need information on this design. If you could email me I would appreciate it
3. Julia Jacquette | March 12th, 2011 at 7:03 am
Hi Valerie-
I’ve been meaning to comment for a while! I’m a (fairly) new professor at FIT – I’m a visual artist who teaches painting and drawing in the Fine Arts Department.
The exhibitions at the Museum at FIT continue to be so compelling. Japan Fashion Now is full of ideas, as was Gothic, which was a real knockout.
I started looking at your blog recently, and you mention two artists I’ve been thinking about a lot recently: Charles LeDray and Nick Cave. I was so pleased to see you talking about their work. Yes, the Charles LeDray retrospective at the Whitney Museum was really inspiring. And about two months ago I saw an exquisite Nice Cave piece at the Brooklyn Museum in a show of work from their permanent collection.
A common day-dreaming topic for me is making lists of artists whose work together would create interesting exhibitions. Mind if I share my wish list for an exhibition about artists whose work uses the structure of “the garment”? You’ve probably thought of this all before, but here it goes…
-Nick Cave
-Charles LeDray
-Yinka Shonibare
-Mimi Smith
-Andrea Zittel
-Nayland Blake
-Beverly Semmes
Hope to meet you some day at FIT!
Julia
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