My Weekly Notebook: Exhibitions

Charles James Ball Gowns, 1948
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Cecil Beaton, Beaton / Vogue / Condé Nast Archive. Copyright © Condé Nast




Charles James "Butterfly" Gown, 1954
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Cecil Beaton, The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's


Charles James with Model, 1948
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Cecil Beaton, Beaton / Vogue / Condé Nast Archive. Copyright © Condé Nast


Charles James: Beyond Fashion

Metropolitan Museum’s Anna Wintour Costume Center 
from May 8 through August 10

The inaugural exhibition of the newly renovated Costume Institute will examine the career of the legendary twentieth-century Anglo-American couturier Charles James (1906–1978). Charles James: Beyond Fashion will explore James's design process, focusing on his use of sculptural, scientific, and mathematical approaches to construct revolutionary ball gowns and innovative tailoring that continue to influence designers today. Approximately seventy-five of James's most notable designs will be presented in two locations—the new Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Gallery in the Anna Wintour Costume Center as well as special exhibition galleries on the Museum's first floor.

The first-floor special exhibition galleries will spotlight the glamour and resplendent architecture of James's ball gowns from the 1940s through 1950s. The Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Gallery will provide the technology and flexibility to dramatize James's biography via archival pieces including sketches, pattern pieces, swatches, ephemera, and partially completed works from his last studio in New York City's Chelsea Hotel. Video animations in both exhibition locations will illustrate how he created dresses that sculpted and reconfigured the female form.

After designing in his native London, and then Paris, James arrived in New York City in 1940. Though he had no formal training, he is now regarded as one of the greatest designers in America to have worked in the tradition of the Haute Couture. His fascination with complex cut and seaming led to the creation of key design elements that he updated throughout his career.

Charles James
"Butterfly" Ball Gown, ca. 1955
Brown silk chiffon, cream silk satin, brown silk satin, dark brown nylon tulle
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Fund, 2013


http://www.metmuseum.org/

Gorizia – Museo della Moda e delle arti applicate

Borgo Castello 13 34170 Gorizia

Per quanto riguarda le esposizioni di abiti i periodi di riferimento sono le date che vanno dal ‘700 fino al ‘900, con particolare riguardo al periodo che va dal 1890 alla prima guerra mondiale, attraverso un percorso che espone i vari capi di vestiario della giornata e della settimana indossati dalle persone dell’area di Gorizia. Interessante è anche la sezione dedicata ai laboratori artigiani in cui viene mostrato come lavoravano calzolai, cappellai e sarti.

Regarding the exposures of the reference periods are the dates ranging from 700 up to 900 particularly with regard to the period from 1890 to World War I, through a process that exposes the various clothing of the day and the week worn by people in the area of Gorizia. Interesting is also the section dedicated to workshops in which shows how working cobblers, tailors and haters.

www.provincia.gorizia.it




Dries Van Noten: Inspirations

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

107 rue de Rivoli
1er
ParisUntil 31 August
 
Entitled simply “Dries Van Noten: Inspirations,” the exhibition at Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris is a unique and revelatory exploration of what makes a designer of the caliber of Dries Van Noten tick; the images, movies, artworks (historic and ultramodern), and clothing (antique and ethnic) that inspire, provoke, and stimulate his creativity. Dries is adamant that this is not intended as a retrospective, although it is certainly an opportunity to study his remarkable body of work through the decades, and explore the themes and threads that unite his timeless designs. These include his enduring passions for flowers, India, China, toreadors, dandies, punk, contemporary art, dance, and uniforms among many other themes.

The show opens with a bang with clothing from the designers who inspired Dries and his contemporaries when they were students at the fabled Antwerp Royal Academy in the late seventies and the turn of the early eighties, with stellar pieces from the debut collections of Claude Montana, Thierry Mugler, Gianni Versace, Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, and others, presented against a dynamic collaged backdrop of eclectic images of the period that include Klaus Nomi, Sex Pistols, and Divine posters, a John Travolta pin-up, and the Diana Vreeland Interview cover. Dries also recently found some soft, hippie spirit dresses and an enduringly chic starburst appliqué coat from his time at the Academy.

www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr

Robert Mapplethorpe

26 March 2014 to 13 July 2014

Robert Mapplethorpe
Gran Palais Paris
Until 13 July 2014

Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the great masters of art photography. He produced highly stylised black and white portraits, nudes and still lifes. The exhibition at Gran Palais in Paris presents the classic dimension of the artist’s work and his search for aesthetic perfection, through over 200 images that span his career from the early 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.

http://www.grandpalais.fr

Robert Mapplethorpe

26 March 2014 to 13 July 2014

Grand Palais

- See more at: http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/event/robert-mapplethorpe#sthash.GomvJ7Zc.dpuf

Robert Mapplethorpe

26 March 2014 to 13 July 2014

Grand Palais

- See more at: http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/event/robert-mapplethorpe#sthash.GomvJ7Zc.dpuf

obert Mapplethorpe was one of the great masters of art photography. He produced highly stylised black and white portraits, nudes and still lifes. Over and above the erotic power that made Mapplethorpe’s work famous, the exhibition presents the classic dimension of the artist’s work and his search for aesthetic perfection, through over 200 images that span his career
from the early 1970s to his untimely death in 1989. - See more at: http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/event/robert-mapplethorpe#sthash.GomvJ7Zc.dpuf

 

Terry O'Neill: Pop Icons
Until 28 September 2014

Museo della Fondazione- Palazzo Cipolla
Rome

Until September 28 2014 in the spaces of Palazzo Cipolla in Rome will be exhibited to the public about fifty photographs among the most famous of Terry O'Neill, considered one of the greatest British photographers of the twentieth century and one of the most collected, in photographic exhibition entitled Terry O'Neill: Pop Icons, curated by Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz Fisac.

O'Neill since the 1960s and for more than six decades has dedicated his work to make it immortal in his shots iconic characters of his time, from actors to politicians, from singers to sports. In his photographs portrayed, among others, Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Elvis, David Bowie, Muhammed Ali, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Nicole Kidman, Amy Winehouse, the various James Bond and ex-wife Faye Dunaway.

Fino al 28 settembre 2014 gli spazi espositivi di Palazzo Cipolla a Roma ospiteranno centocinquanta opere del più grande esponente della pop art Andy Warhol, contemporaneamente saranno esposte al pubblico circa cinquanta fotografie tra le più note del celebre Terry O’Neill, considerato uno dei più grandi fotografi britannici del Ventesimo secolo e uno dei più collezionati, nella mostra fotografica dal titolo Terry O’Neill: Pop Icons, curata da Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz Fisac. 

O’Neill dagli anni Sessanta e per oltre sei decenni ha dedicato il suo lavoro a rendere immortali nei suoi scatti personaggi iconici del suo tempo, da attori a politici, da cantanti a sportivi. Nelle sue fotografie ha ritratto tra gli altri Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, i Rolling Stones, i Beatles, Elvis, David Bowie, Muhammed Ali, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Nicole Kidman, Amy Winehouse, i vari James Bond e l’ex moglie Faye Dunaway.

 

 www.mostraterryoneill.it/

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