Black Designer Curates Museum Exhibit
Posted on 31. Oct, 2012 by citizen in Fashion
André Leon Talley
“Little Black Dress,” curated by SCAD trustee and Vogue Contributing Editor André Leon Talley, charts the historic and contemporary significance of a singular sartorial phenomenon. Featuring approximately 80 garments from a canon of modern fashion designers, the exhibition includes contributions from veteran designers and those of the International Best-Dressed List such as Marc Jacobs, Miuccia Prada and Renée Zellweger.
Tracing the bold curve of social history across the 20th and 21st centuries, “Little Black Dress” explores the evolution of a definitive yet democratic style that, for more than a century, has embodied the shifting social tides of the modern world. In its ubiquity and versatility, the little black dress has delivered some of the most indelible images of our visual age. Endlessly appropriated and translated, each dress is imbued with the value of its day — from service to independence, from restraint to temptation, from glamour to grace.
The “Little Black Dress” exhibit runs from through Jan. 27, 2013.
The SCAD Museum of Art is a contemporary art and design museum conceived and designed expressly to enrich the educational milieu of SCAD students and faculty, and to attract and delight visitors from around the world. The exhibition is free with SCAD Museum of Art admission. For additional information, visit scadmoa.org.
Source: SCAD Museum
