In Jean Paul Gaultier’s Spring/Summer 1996Cyberbaba collection, the designer fused high-tech futurism with earthy sensuality, creating garments that blurred the boundaries between skin, surface, and identity. Among its most striking looks is a classic woman’s tailored suit — crisp jacket and pants — that, on closer inspection, reveals a printed illusion: the muscular torso of a man, rendered in red, mapped directly onto the fabric. Known as the Cyber Muscle Suit, was recently spotted as part of Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysisat the Museum at FIT, where it stands as a provocative study in how fashion visualizes the unconscious. Continue reading Eye On Design: Jean Paul Gaultier’s Cyber Muscle Suit→
You want to have a special wedding, a meaningful day that’s a true celebration of your relationship, but it can feel like all of the traditions and rules in place are a major constraint on things. If planning a traditional wedding is becoming too stressful, then it can be important to acknowledge that, yes, you can buck those trends. In fact, here are some that you might want to reconsider entirely. Continue reading Bucking The Trends: Wedding Traditions Worth Ignoring→
While running errands on my lunch hour, I stumbled upon a set of ten larger-than-life-size bronze statues of various women, who are easily recognizable as celebrities or otherwise influential public figures, which turned out to be part of Statues For Equality, a public art initiative by husband and wife artist team Gillie and Marc. Statues For Equality is a global mission to balance gender representation in public statues and honor women’s contribution to society. Continue reading Statue of Pink in The Financial District→
In 1970, Life magazine invited Rudi Gernreich (1922 – 1985) to envision what people would wear a decade in the future. He extended his prediction to the year 2000, illustrating men and women in matching ensembles with heads either shaved or wigged. Unlike other contemporaneous unisex styles, Gernreich’s designs did not use menswear as a baseline for women’s garments. “Women will wear pants and men will wear skits interchangeably,” he predicted. “The aesthetics of fashion are going to involve the body itself. We will train the body to grown beautifully rather than cover it to produce beauty.” Continue reading Eye On Design: Unisex Jumpsuit By Rudi Gernreich→
