By Colleen Hill
Book Review: Thinking Through Fashion
Edited by Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik
Exhibition Review: Charlotte Collects: Contemporary Couture and Fabulous Fashion
Mint Museum (October 14 2017 – February 4, 2018)
Exhibition Review: The Eye of the Beholder: Decade-Defining Lids, Lashes, & Brows
80WSE Gallery (January 13 - February 2, 2018)
Exhibition Review: The Body: Fashion and Physique
Museum at FIT (December 5, 2017 – May 5, 2018)
Exhibition Review: Guo Pei: Couture Beyond
SCAD FASH (September 7, 2017 – March 4, 2018)
Exhibition Review: Dior: Designer of Dreams
Musée des Les Arts Décoratifs (July 5 2017 – January 7, 2018)
Book Review: Opening Up the Wardrobe
By Kate Fletcher and Ingun Grimstad Klepp
Book Review: The Geographies of Fashion
By Louise Crewe
Exhibition Review: House Style: Five Centuries of Fashion
Chatsworth House (March 25 – 22 October 2017)
Exhibition Review: RUN Church, RUN Restaurant, RUN Store
Modern Art (September 1 - September 30, 2017)
Exhibition Review: Super Sharp: Fashion Space Gallery
Fashion Space Gallery (February 1 - April 21, 2018)
Exhibition Review: Azzedine Alaïa: "Je Suis Couturier"
The way the garments were displayed did not feel like a shop window as retrospectives often do. The lighting and display lent a cinematic feeling to the exhibition, especially with pieces such as the black column dress with a deep décolleté reminiscent of red carpet looks of eras passed.
Exhibition Review: Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion
Originally curated by Sarah Schleuning from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia and Mark Wilson and Sue-an van der Zijpp from the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion was a focused look at the designer’s work since 2008.
Exhibition Review: Dior at ROM
The Royal Ontario Museum, Patricia Harris Gallery of Textiles and Costume (Toronto), Extended until April 8, 2018
Book Review: Letters to Yves
Here, in Bergé’s deft phrases and clever asides, were the messages and meanings for which I had been so hungry.
Exhibition Review: Items: Is Fashion Modern?
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (October 1, 2017-January 28, 2018)
Exhibition Review: Louise Dahl-Wolfe: A Style of Her Own
Perhaps it is the scope of the photographer’s work which presents the biggest challenge for exhibition curation here.
