This week I happened to catch the final end of this installation at the Met with my daughter, la fashionista. At times I feel like I have really failed her when I remember at her age I was unconscious of fashion, wearing red satin short shorts, a purple disco tube top, and roller skating on electric blue roller-skates with electric static hair. My daughter on the other hand age 12 knows Christian Louboutin. But we both loved this show, which explored the influence of Orientalism and Chinoiserie on Western fashion design houses. The installation was a profusion of the startlingly beautiful East/West fashion, sumptuous screenings of exotic film footage, and dresses that sometimes appeared to float like lilies in a ersatz black glass lake.
Great creativity and skill…from the neck down.
Absolutely incredible! Great pictures by the way…..I wasn’t sneaky enough to get pictures at The Savage Beauty Exhib!
Alicia.
They aren’t my pics though, Alicia… I pulled them off Flickr. I didn’t bother as I figured someone would get better ones. Also, I sort of dislike taking photos at museums.
Ahhh I see. Yeah I get what you mean! We seem to live in a society where people first reaction to something awesome is “les take a photo!” And I think it’s just nice to enjoy the experience!
Alicia.
I am at fault for sometimes taking pictures of the kids but yes, when we are at a nature site or art museum I figure…there are better pictures out there anyway.