The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion – Harold Koda, Kohle Yohannan
Harold Koda Curator in Charge at The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York & fashion author Kohle Yohannan’s new book - The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion tracks the careers of some of the worlds mot famous models.
Model as Muse explores fashion’s reciprocal relationship to iconic beauties that represent the evolution and changing face of the feminine ideal. Featuring a brief historical overview of the phenomenon of the supermodel, the book begins in the early twentieth century and continues to the present day. Dorian Leigh and Lisa Fonssagrives in the 1940s are joined in the 1950s by Dovima, Sunny Harnett, and Suzy Parker. They are followed by Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy in the early 1960s and Lauren Hutton in the 1970s.
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The 1980s witnessed such enduring personalities as Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista, while the 1990s brought on Kate Moss, whose edgy, street-inflected style has inspired not only fashion designers, editors, stylists, and photographers, but artists such as Chuck Close and Lucien Freud.
With an emphasis on styles from the 1950s onward, the book features designs from the great ready-to-wear and couture houses – Madame Gres, Christian Dior, and Balenciaga in the 1950s Rudi Gernreich, Yves Saint Laurent, and Cardin in the 1960s Giorgio di Sant’Angelo and Halston in the 1970s Christian Lacroix, Versace, Comme des Garcons, and Calvin Klein in the 1980s and, Marc Jacobs, John Galliano, and Alexander McQueen in the 1990s.
Links and Further Reading
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition
- Watch the exhibition video
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