Radical Craft Yields Pretty Things
John Hockenberry claimed he took extra long to pick out his outfit this morning since he knew he’d be introducing these three fashionistas today at the Art Center conference. First up was Harold Koda, curator of the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, who said, “Thank you John. ‘Miami Vice’ is coming back.”
Koda gave a sprightly presentation on the history of couture. He named Balenciaga as the greatest house of fashion currently in existence, although we’re infinitely more interested in a designer whose name escaped us–they use molds and bacterias to stain their fabrics into a “lunar landscape,” as Koda called it.
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