The influence of fashion on culture and society over the past 100 years - at the grand exhibition Items: Is Fashion Modern? at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This has not happened in MoMA for a long time - since seventy years ago, architect Bernard Rudofsky (Bernard Rudofsky) introduced the fashion world at the exhibition “Are Clothes Modern?”.
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There are seven sections altogether; they are dedicated to cut and silhouette, new technologies, rebelliousness and emancipation, everyday things and hidden messages, strength and asceticism.

Things were divided into 111 types: a little black dress, a bikini, aviator glasses, a pencil skirt, a leather jacket, a baseball cap and much more. Many of the exhibitors marked the beginning of a new era or turned into integral elements of a basic wardrobe.

350 items include Levi’s jeans, Ralph Lauren polo shirt, Hermès Birkin bag, Vivienne Westwood kilts, Yves Saint Laurent women's tuxedo.




Curators Paola Antonelli and Michel Miller Fisher boldly combine high-quality and everyday: couture works Comme des Garçons with balaclava and shorts. Five photographers were honored to be represented in the museum catalog: Catherine Lozing, Christine-Lee Mulman, Omar Victor Diop, Bobby Doherty and Monica Mogi - each was given eight pages and an equal share of items for filming.

“The only rule was that we had to cover every point of the exhibition,” says Lozing, who worked with designer Anna Lomax, “The idea of the curators: the photographer takes a list of things and creates it in his own style with his ideas.”

Especially for the opening of the exhibition, ten fashion brands, including Issey Miyake, Rick Owens, Swatch, Marni, recreated one cult object. Limited Swatch watches, black Issey Miyake turtlenecks or Ray ∙ Ban aviators can be purchased at the museum shop and MoMA branded design boutiques. The offer is valid only while the exhibition is open - until January 28, 2018