Doshi-Levien
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Wellcome Trust Window Installation
Tomorrow evening the London-based design duo Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien will have a conversation at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum about their new furniture collection for Moroso that combines handmade and industrial production, a design approach that reflects a cross-cultural creative process. Nipa Doshi says, "I love my cheap colourful plastic bangles as much as my beautifully crafted jewellery. I am inspired when an East London Bangladeshi girl dresses in her traditional salwar kameez and wears trainers, speaking a mix of Bengali and cockney." Their new furniture collection features techniques such as quilting and applique mixed with bright colors and cheeky themes.
Guests will have the opportunity to view the installation of the new Doshi-Levien work in the Great Hall at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
CHNDM
2 East 91st St, NYC
June 27, 2007
6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Members and students with valid ID: $5; non-members $10. For discounted registration or for more information, please call the Education Department at 212.849.8380.
Sarah Scaturro
Fashion Projects #5 is devoted to fashion curation, examining the meteoritic rise in relevance of fashion exhibitions.
It features interviews with an eclectic assortment of leading practitioners from different corners of the world. The issue includes long Q&As with Harold Koda, the longtime, recently retired curator of the Met’s Costume Institute, as well as the Museum at FIT’s veteran leader Valerie Steele. It also features interviews with curators in Antwerp (the ModeMuseum’s Kaat Debo), Toronto (Royal Ontario Museum’s Alexandra Palmer) and Venice (Maria Luisa Frisa); academics studying the field (Hazel Clark, Annamari Vänskä, and Alistair O’Neill); and, giving an on-the-ground perspective, the Met’s head conservator, Sarah Scaturro. The issue’s cover stars Greer Lankton’s sculptural representation of legendary Vogue editor and Costume Institute doyenne Diana Vreeland, who continues to loom over the field years after her death.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Showmanship and History: An Interview with Harold Koda by Francesca Granata
Woman of Steele: An Interview with Valerie Steele by Lisa Santandrea
Exploring Fashion’s Openness: An Interview with Kaat Debo by Alex Esculapio
London, After a Fashion Curator: An Interview with Alistair O’Neill by Alexis Romano
Curation and Conservation: An Interview with Sarah Scaturro by Mae Colburn
Reflections on Fashion Curating
An Interview with Hazel Clark and Annamari Vänskä
Fashion in the Vast Museum: An Interview with Alexandra Palmer by Ingrid Mida
Restless Curating: An Interview with Maria Luisa Frisa by Marco Pecorari