Season of Knits
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A Tom Scott Creation. Photography by Stephen Rose, photo taken from www.refinery29.com
It is definitely the season for knits. We've already mentioned Sandra Backlund, but there is another young knitwear designer whose attention-grabbing creations are experimental yet wearable: Tom Scott. The website Refinery29 has this excellent profile on Scott. You can also see his designs (including a sweater woven with steel and a t-shirt with off-set arms) featured in the upcoming Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's Triennial exhibition opening this Friday.
While Scott's pieces are definitively modern and even futuristic, there is another, more historical, reason to celebrate knits this season. Perhaps you remember reading awhile ago that a motherload of deadstock vintage knits was found in the Ohio Knitting Mills factory in Cleveland, OH. Well, the knits have come to New York and you can buy them at the new Ohio Knitting Mills store in Boerum Hills. Stephen Tatar, the man responsible for bringing these rare pieces to NYC was recently interviewed by Paper Magazine. Although he admits that the stock won't run out anytime soon, he stresses that it will eventually happen!
Sarah
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