Add to Google “The Daphne Guinness Collection” Pre-Sale Exhibit at Christie’s
Having famously bought her late friend Isabella Blow’s fashion collection in its entirety to stop a planned auction last year, Daphne Guinness now takes it one step further to show her devotion to her beloved friend: the heiress will auction off at Christie’s one hundred pieces from her own avant-garde collection this summer, and she’ll use the proceeds to launch the Isabella Blow Foundation, a charity Guinness has set up in honor of Blow.
| When: | View in Calendar » June 23, 2012 – June 27, 2012 |
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| Where: | View Map » Christie’s, 85 Old Brompton Rd, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London SW7 3LD, UK |
| Contact: | http://christies.com/ +44 (0)20 7930 6074 |
| Categories: | United Kingdom |
| Tags: | Alexander McQueen Balenciaga Chanel Daphne Guinness Isabella Blow London |
Uncover the Secrets of Charles James - America’s First Couturier
A team of museum staff worked tirelessly to study the garments made by Charles James (1906 – 1978), America’s first couturier. The team turned the dresses inside out, sketching, x-raying, and photographing the pieces. Two years and lots of cutting and reshaping later, unique copies of the interior of James’ iconic sculpted gowns were born: the Clover, the Tree, and the Taxi. [1]
| When: | View in Calendar » October 22, 2011 – April 16, 2012 |
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| Where: | View Map » Chicago History Museum, 1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614, USA |
| Contact: | http://chicagohistory.org |
| Categories: | United States |
| Tags: | Balenciaga Charles James Christian Dior Coco Chanel |
Oscar de la Renta and André Leon Talley’s Spanish Dress Exhibit
“[Oscar de] la Renta decided Balenciaga’s contribution is so important, that Nicolas Ghesquière’s helmet and leather tunic jacket, inspired by Spanish fishermen’s tunics, should be installed on its own in a special vitrine in the lobby, the first thing one sees upon entering,” André Leon Talley writes in his column in Vogue.
| When: | View in Calendar » December 8, 2011 – March 10, 2012 |
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| Where: | View Map » Queen Sofía Spanish Institute, 684 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065, USA |
| Contact: | http://spanishinstitute.org/ |
| Categories: | United States |
| Tags: | André Leon Talley Balenciaga Chanel Christian Lacroix Cristóbal Balenciaga Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida Karl Lagerfeld Lee McQueen New York Nicolas Ghesquière Oscar de la Renta Stefano Pilati Yves Saint Laurent |
“Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones” Lands Manhattan
Did you know? Humans have only stopped wearing hats in the last 50 years or so. “I think fashion historians will one day look back on this current time as the brief period when people didn’t wear hats,” Stephen Jones tells New York Magazine. “[It’s] just a blip in the larger history of headwear.”
| When: | View in Calendar » September 15, 2011 – April 15, 2012 |
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| Where: | View Map » Bard Graduate Center, 18 W 86th St, New York, NY 10024, USA |
| Categories: | United States |
| Tags: | Balenciaga Boy George Christian Dior Halston Jean Paul Gaultier New York Stephen Jones |