![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes the meaningful data is in the macro and not in the micro: you just have to remember to regularly take a step back, squint your eyes to avoid getting distracted by the details, and look for the overarching structures that emerge. It was a fascinating and moving exhibition just by reading the checklist of the 111 items, it’s striking to immediately realize how prominent a role fashion plays as a connective tissue between people and cultures, and how strongly it affects how we live, think, and express ourselves in our societies and communities.įor these Capstone elements we created a forward-looking vision for the future that we based on the theory of the Quantum Redesign of Fashion, developed by Glasgow Caledonian New York College’s Fair Fashion Center. Among them are pieces as well known and transformative as Levi’s 501s, the Breton shirt, and the Little Black Dress, and as ancient and culturally charged as the sari, the pearl necklace, the kippah, and the keffiyeh. Opening on October 1, 2017, the show explored the present, past - and sometimes the future - of 111 items of clothing and accessories that have had a strong impact on the world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and continue to hold currency today. The visualization is magnificently displayed as the closing piece to the exhibition, printed at large scale over three huge twenty-foot-high walls in the sixth floor lobby towering over visitors as they stepped off the escalators. In the past months, I have had the huge honor of collaborating with Paola Antonelli and Michelle Millar Fisher (Senior Curator and a Curatorial Assistant in the Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Architecture and Design respectively, with Antonelli, also serving as MoMA’s Director of R&D ) and their team on a data-driven artwork that encapsulates the themes of the museum’s exhibition on fashion Items: Is Fashion Modern?
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