Purple Art
[October 19 2017]
“Items: Is Fashion Modern?” group exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, New York
Organized by Paola Antonelli and Michelle Millar Fisher, Items: Is Fashion Modern? presents 111 items of clothing and accessories that have had a profound impact on global culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Among them are designs as well-known, transformative, and coveted as Levi’s 501 jeans and the sari and as ancient, charged, and historically rich as the pearl necklace and the keffiyeh.
“A powerful form of creative and personal expression that can be approached from multiple angles of study, fashion is unquestionably also a form of design, with its pitch struck in negotiations between form and function, means and goals, automated technologies and craftsmanship, standardization and customization, universality and self-expression. Like all physical and digital forms of design, it moves today on a spectrum ranging from post-industrial seriality (from prêt-à-porter to fast fashion) to precious, handcrafted uniqueness (couture). As design, it exists in the service of others. In most cases, it is designed by a human being to dress others—sometimes many, many others—so that they can function in the world, in different arenas.” — Paola Antonelli.
On view from October 1st, 2017 to January 28th, 2018 at The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019.
Photo Pola Esther
