CHARLOTTE, NC (PNAN) – Going on view Saturday, December 10, 2022 at the Mint Museum Uptown,“Fashion Reimagined: Themes & Variations 1760-Now” features 50 examples of fashionable dress drawn entirely from the museum’s permanent collection, which consists of both men’s and women’s fashions. The show is also arranged into thematic sections: minimalism, pattern and decoration and the body reimagined.
Additionally, the exhibit celebrates the 50th anniversary of the fashion collection’s founding in 1972 by the Mint Auxiliary as well as a fascinating look at innovative contemporary dress and the persistence of historic and cultural attitudes towards silhouettes, surface design, and corporeal beauty.
Fashion ensembles range from court suits to street wear such as those being highlighted: English 18th-century sack back gown; two rare 18th-century English men’s suits; early 19th-century printed cotton dresses; wedding dresses from the mid- and last quarter of the 19th century; including a rare 1928 wedding ensemble by Roman fashion artist Maria Monaci Gallenga; very rare early 20th-century Ispahan mantle by Paul Poiret, and an unusual mid-20th-century Black Narcissus dress by American designer James Galanos.
Several will be also other examples of 1960s and ’70s mod and hippie chic style, and trenchant contemporary fashions by Giorgio Armani, Romeo Gigli, Zandra Rhodes, Anna Sui, Yohji Yamamoto, Walé Oyéjidé for Ikiré Jones, Anamika Khanna, and Iris van Herpen, among others round out the centuries of fashion on display through July 2, 2023.
