Visual vagabond – we have seen new vistas through your vast imagination.
Shimmering shaman – you have guided us in the darkest, unadorned hours.
Priestess of precision – you balance on tip-toe with the weight of the worn world on your shoulders.
Maestro of modern mode – we enjoy your symphonic ways.
Enigmatic Eve – we catch a fleeting, fluttering glimpse of you, at times.
Couture curator, creator – we are drawn into your universe.
Daphne Guinness, an exhibit featuring approximately one hundred garments and accessories from the private collection of one of the world’s most creative wearers and makers of clothes, opens at The Museum at FIT tomorrow.
Running until January 7th, 2012, the exhibit will also display images, videos and films of Ms. Guinness. Like the clothes themselves, some of these have been created by her as well.
Along with her own designs, items from Chanel, Valentino, Alaia, Givenchy, Lacroix, Dior, Tom Ford, Gareth Pugh – and over two dozen of her dear friend, Alexander McQueen’s pieces, that have never before been on display – will be on view.
Her collaboration with metalsmith and jeweler extraordinaire, Shaun Leane, as well as hats by Philip Treacy and alas – the shoes we are all in awe of – will surely be draws for both the curious and the serious, among us.
The exhibition is co-curated by Daphne Guinness and The Museum at FIT’s director and chief curator, Valerie Steele. Here is a preview of some of the items that will be on display.
See her in the McQueen zippered platforms at his memorial, here.
Images, unless otherwise noted, are all courtesy of the Museum at FIT.
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