Honoring Clever Haute Couture

Breaking the Mode: Contemporary Fashion from the Permanent Collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Sept. 17, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007

Rethink what you wear! Some fashion designers are truly ingenious artists, turning fashion inside-out and upside-down.

Breaking the Mode: Contemporary Fashion from the Permanent Collection will present designers who found traditional criteria and solutions obsolete – designers who challenged the canons of the body’s fashionable silhouette, revolutionized methods of garment construction, rejected the formulaic use of materials and techniques, and exploited new technology in textile production. >>continue>>

Image:
Issey Miyake
A-POC (A Piece of Cloth) Queen
Spring/Summer 1999
Nylon-cotton stretch knit, 160 ¾ x 22 in. (408.3 x 55.9 cm)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Costume Council Fund
Photo by Pascal Roulin, photo courtesy of the Miyake Issey Foundation