DEPARTMENT
Retrospective

COUNTER-COUTURE

The Museum of Arts and Design brings us back to the heyday of the hippie era. Clothing, jewelry, photographs, and other memorabilia from the 1960s-1970s demonstrate the extravagance and ingenuity of that era.

“Before fashion changed a few decades later, this clothing and jewelry still had wearability as its locus, and consciously expressed a basic romanticism for both feminine and masculine genders with its timely tendency for individualistic liberalism and radicalism as its cultural inspiration.”

DEPARTMENT
Trunk Show

BHAGWAN DAS SONI

One of the four Rajasthani jewelers whose work appeared in “Enduring Splendor: Jewelry of India’s Thar Desert,” Bhagwan Das Soni presented his family’s skillful artisanship at a one-day trunk show at the Fowler Museum at UCLA.

DEPARTMENT
Museum News

SHOCK WAVE

The Denver Art Museum recently hosted a show on the influence on fashion of seventy Japanese clothing designers during the 1980s-1990s, juxtaposing their styles versus contemporaneous Western dress.

DEPARTMENT
Fashion Arts

BLACK FASHION DESIGNERS

The recent Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology exhibition brings the contribution of the black fashion designer into full view, from the middle of the twentieth century into the twenty-first.

DEPARTMENT
Photography Tips

PHOTOGRAPHY
ON THE RUN

Robert K. Liu demonstrates photographic techniques on location and in the studio that produce reproduction level images, taking advantage of external flashes or high ISO on his digital cameras.