Little Black Dress
dal 2/7/2013 al 21/9/2013
Segnalato da
2/7/2013
Little Black Dress
Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris
The exhibition highlights the strength of individualism, charting the evolution of the little black dress from its native definition of invariable propriety, to new and distinctly contemporary explorations of texture, tone and silhouette.
Organized by the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art and curated by SCAD trustee and Vogue Contributing Editor André Leon Talley, Little Black Dress charts the historic and contemporary significance of a singular sartorial phenomenon.
Featuring approximately fifty garments from a canon of modern fashion designers, the exhibition includes contributions from veteran fashion designers and those of the international Best-Dressed List.
The exhibition highlights the strength of individualism, charting the evolution of the little black dress from its native definition of invariable propriety, to new and distinctly contemporary explorations of texture, tone and silhouette.
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Images of Mona BismarckJuly 3 – September 22, 2013
Among the few indelible impressions that the years preceding the last war have left on my mind’s eye, Mrs. Harrison Williams and her dazzling surroundings remain one of the most felicitous.
Excerpts from Cecil Beaton’s The Glass of Fashion, 1954
Mona Bismarck Foundation
34, avenue de New York - Paris