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In 1963, Gaby Aghion (House of Chloe) hired the young, then-unknown Karl Lagerfeld to join her team of stylists. Together they established Chloe’s unique position between haute couture and the everyday accessibility of ready-to-wear, a niche that she called “pret-a-porter de luxe.”
Continue reading Eye On Design: ABC Dress By Karl Lagerfeld for Chloé
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Brazilian artist Marta Minujin’s recent artistic forays reflect the public and private nature of her practice. In addition to tackling works of remarkable ambition and scale — including huge inflatables presented in public venues — she unfailingly produces art in her long-standing studio making labor-intensive abstract paintings out of thousands of small strips of painted fabric, such as Sunrise in Patagonia (2012).
Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Marta Minujin, Sunrise in Patagonia
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Chloé’s recent creative directors have been Natasha Ramsey and Gabriela Hearst (2020 – 2023). Both women reflect on the cycles of fashion, returning to past styles in ways that explore the richness of the brand’s heritage, as well as the ethics of reuse.
Hearst has renewed Chloé’s bohemian seventies spirit, bringing back maxi dresses, ponchos, and earthy colors, and reviving the environmentalist ethos of that decade.
Continue reading Eye On Design: Silk Macrame Dress By Gabriela Hearst for Chloé
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Sarah Sze is best known for dazzlingly intricate installations of found objects, light, and sound. She brings a similar magpie tendency and skittering energy to her work as a painter. In Red Rotation (2020), Sze collages suggestively related images onto the surface three wood panels. Each panel varies slightly in depth, creating a stepped progression seen when the work is viewed from the side.
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The celebrated French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844 – 1932) was the quintessential modern star. “The Divine” Sarah had the beauty and talent that heralded her as one of the greatest actresses of her time, making her the perfect foil for Andy Warhol’s fascination with mass media, photography and fame. In this portrait (1980), part of his series Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, her stunning gaze is abstracted through Warhol’s signature Pop Art style: the bold use of luscious reds and pensive blues, stark geometry and incisive line.
Photographed in The Jewish Museum in Manhattan