End: 22 Sep 2013
Location: Mona Bismarck American Center for art and culture
Address: 34 avenue de New York, 75116 Paris
The SCAD Museum of Art at the Savannah College of Art and Design presents Little Black Dress, curated by André Leon Talley, SCAD trustee, editor at large for Numéro Russia and contributing editor at Vogue.
Little Black Dress charts the historic and contemporary significance of a singular sartorial phenomenon.
Featuring approximately 50 looks, the exhibition includes contributions from a canon of modern fashion designers and international best-dressed list stars including Chanel, Marc Jacobs, Miuccia Prada, Tom Ford, Prabal Gurung, Proenza Schouler, Oscar de la Renta and Lady Gaga.
The exhibition was inaugurated in Savannah, Georgia, at the SCAD Museum of Art in September 2012.
Little Black Dress is designed to showcase the divergent and individual manifestations of the little black dress across this century and the last
Talley adds, "The exhibition highlights the strength of individualism, charting the evolution of the little black dress from its original definition of invariable propriety, to new and distinctly contemporary explorations of texture, tone and silhouette."
Tracing the bold curve of history across the 20th and 21st centuries, Little Black Dress explores the evolution of a definitive yet democratic style that, for more than a century, has embodied the shifting social tides of the modern world. In its ubiquity and versatility, the little black dress has delivered some of the most indelible images of our visual age.
Endlessly appropriated and translated, each dress is imbued with the value of its day —from service to independence, from restraint to temptation, from glamour to grace.
“This exhibition celebrates the little black dress in its myriad forms, from the pleated Fortuny dress of the late C.Z. Guest, a style icon and great friend; to the impossibly elegant Madame Grès silk crêpe de chine dress from 1977,” said Talley.
Other featured garments presented in Little Black Dress include a selection from Prabal Gurung’s Fall 2011 collection, previously worn by Sarah Jessica Parker, and a Stella McCartney worn by Rihanna. Many other iconic pieces will be displayed including those from L’Wren Scott, Givenchy, Cushnie et Ochs and Yves Saint Laurent, among others.
For more information, go to //www.scad.edu/event
