December 12, 2022 | 2:00–3:00 Chat Sign up for Melinda Watt, chair and Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles, and Monika Bincsik, curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as they go over Fabricating Fashion and the approaches Bincsik and Watt have employed for exhibiting clothing and textiles to […]
Fashion And Textiles
Why Alexander McQueen Is the Immortal Muse
Glance 3, gown and boots, from the A/W 2010 Angels and Demons selection “PEOPLE Don’t WANT to see dresses — they want to see some thing that fuels the creativity.” So Alexander McQueen advised The New York Moments in March 2009, prior to his autumn/winter Horn of A great deal […]
Local fashion activist transforms Iowa City dry cleaner building into house of fashion
Machia Leggins of Cedar Rapids seems to be at herself in the mirror while training her runway walk in the course of a design boot camp course Dec. 2 at Wright Household of Fashion in Iowa Metropolis. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) Users of the Wright Vogue House pose in entrance of […]
Dressing Dakar: a fashion city from artisan tailoring to haute couture | Global development
Jackets are hung on one wall of Bada Seck’s single-room atelier in the Ngor arrondissement of Dakar in Senegal, dresses are arranged along another. Half-made garments lie on top of an unused sewing machine and bags of fabric cover the floor. Seck’s workshop, in this former fishing village on the […]
Why I’m Buying Back Appropriated Clothing as a Power Move
Since that extremely first Gaultier acquisition, I have started out broadening my lookup for even extra classic products that have so-referred to as Indigenous-motivated factors on them in get to reclaim the appropriation. (I zeroed in on vintage for the reason that I do not want to give money immediately […]
Helena Elston designs decomposable garments from mycelium
Designer Helena Elston has produced a collection of upcycled garments built from mycelium and London-sourced textile waste, which explores “how we can deliver beautiful matters from discarded products”. FI (Fungal Built-in) is an ongoing undertaking by London-based mostly Elston made up of different clothes she generates applying a blend of […]