DESIGN COUNCIL: The Design Museum in London has mounted “Women Fashion Power” an event that looks at the last 150 years of fashion, and the statements women make via their clothing. Designed by Zaha Hadid and co-curated by Colin McDowell as well as Donna Loveday, head of curatorial at the Design Museum, the displays vary from 19th century corsets to modern-day Christian Louboutin shoes, as well as a 1966 The Smoking suit designed by Yves Saint Laurent, a Zandra Rhodes Conceptual Chic punk bridal gown, Margaret Thatcher’s Mansfield suit, Elsa Schiaparelli’s clothing and accessories, and a Jacques Azagury dress that belonged to Princess Diana. Alongside the various displays of fashion products, archived photography and film footage is on display.
Anne Hidalgo, the actual mayor of Paris, attended the opening. “The issue of garments, of how 1 dresses, is very important because the world of politics, is a world in where we then add authority, ” she said. “It’s also a world of power in which there are couple of women, and therefore women have no role models who can function as inspiration for clothing and shoes - formal presentation - which will guide their career. ”
McDowell said the show “isn’t a fashion exhibition, despite the fact that we use ‘fashion’ in the title. It’s about clothes and how women have used them to empower on their own, to intimidate people, and just to make them feel sexy. So , it’s not… it is chronological, but it isn’t in fact entirely about all the great movements of fashion. It is about how all intelligent women, take what they need from fashion at any the moment - and get their look. “The most interesting and successful people putting on clothes today are people who have made their own look from what they are offered. ” The show also spotlights 25 women from business, culture, fashion as well as politics including Hidalgo, Livia Firth, Joan Burstein, Charlotte Olympia Dellal, as well as Rhodes. It will run until April 26th.
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