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Color Your World: Catching Up

06/21/2019•art, fashion, museum

The Artistry of Guo Pei

It’s in the Details

Purse, Ensemble, Guo Pei, Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California, 2019

Apricot

Embroidered detail from Dress Ensemble, Guo Pei, Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California, 2019

Aquamarine and Banana Mania

Jacket Detail from ensemble, Guo Pei, Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California, 2019

Atomic Orange

Details from three of the ensembles that are part of Guo Pei: Couture Beyond, organized by the Bowers Museum in collaboration with Guo Pei’s Rose Studios, SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film and SCAD: The University for Creative Careers. It runs through July 14, 2019 at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California.

 

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Guo Pei, Couture Beyond, at the Bowers Museum

05/25/2019•design, fashion, museum

Beyond Beautiful

I was amazed by the forty ensembles by Chinese fashion designer Guo Pei currently on display at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California.

It is almost impossible to describe the intricate details and decorative elements Pei uses in her designs: crystals embroidery, metallic threads, luxury material, etc. The exhibition includes designs from 2006 through 2018 and includes many items shown at Paris Fashion Week.

Each ensemble includes fantastic platform shoes. (2015)

This is Guo’s interpretation of Aladdin. (2009-2010)

The exhibit runs through July 14, 2019. If you are in the area, I highly recommend it.

Color

10/11/2018•art, Culture, history

20th Century Byzantine

Evening top, Gianni Versace, 1991/1992

Versace’s  autumn/winter collection was inspired by the Byzantine mosaics of the churches and religious buildings of Ravenna, Italy. The  halter top shown above was part of the 2018 Heavenly Bodies exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  The photograph below shows a detail from a mosaic depicting the Empress Theodora from the 6th- century Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna.  Theodora (c. 500– 548) was empress of the Eastern Roman Empire, also called Byzantium or the Byzantine Empire, by her marriage to Emperor Justinian I.

Theodora (basilica San Vitale, Ravenna), By Petar Milošević –  Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60461082

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Angel Wings

09/11/2018•art, design, imagination

Midnight Angel

Midnight Angel, featuring “Madonna” ensemble, House of Dior, 205/06, fashion designed by John Galliano.

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Museums Are My Muse

09/10/2018•art, design, religion

Madonna Rising

“Madonna Ensemble,” Thierry Mugler, 10th Anniversary Collection, 1984/84, exhibit “Heavenly Bodies,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 2018, 

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Silent Sunday

09/09/2018•art, design, imagination, religion

Evening dress, Valentino, 2017/18. Inspired by Franciscan monk’s robes.

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