by Cybel Martin | Jul 26, 2011 | Art, Fashion
The Alexander McQueen : Savage Beauty exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is mind-blowing. The curator managed to create an experience that, I imagine, replicates wearing his clothes: woman as mythical creature. The Met has extended the show until August 7th and introduced a new program, Met Mondays with McQueen, which will allow visitors to view the exhibit on Mondays (while the Museum is closed to the public).
Savage Beauty at the Met until Sunday August 7th, 2011
by Bob Martin | Feb 7, 2011 | Culture, Exhibits, Fashion, Museums
February 21 2009 – July 5, 2009
“Romantic ideas of chivalry and courtly magnificence from the Middle Ages have inspired the use of medieval silhouettes and details in modern fashion design, literature, architecture and art. Also known as Gothic style, medievalism blossomed in the mid-19th century as a sentimental response toward the societal challenges of rapid industrialization. While its origins lie in early antiquarian studies and politics, the revival of medieval silhouettes and motifs today emerges through popular mediums such as films, books and fairy tales that are distant interpretations.” Phoenix Museum of Art
by Sandy | Dec 20, 2010 | Art, Creativity, Exhibits, Fashion, Museums
92 year old jeweler (I would call him “artist”), John Paul Miller has 50 of his brilliant pieces on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art until January 2, 2011. Beautiful and magical. 
His jewelry is often about “…fleeting creatures of earth, sea, and sky—snails, squids, crabs, moths, and flies…inspiring a complicated palette of seductive enamels and textured forms. Historical reference and modern abstraction also infuse his designs, bringing together that which he saw and that which he imagined to form a body of work full of curiosity and self-expression.”
“The Jewelry of John Paul Miller” Until January 2
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio
by Sandy | Aug 4, 2009 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Books, Culture, Fashion
In 1968 she was on the cover of Ladies Home Journal. Amazing enough that an African- American woman was on the cover, but this woman was my color – Mahogany!
She was a first and paved the way, beginning in the 70’s, for the influx of models, in an assortment of colors, that started to parade the runway and appear on magazine covers in both Europe and the U.S. The mind set determining who was pretty and who wasn’t started to change.
Naomi Sims was smart, beautiful, elegant and black – thank you. 1948 – 2009 *R.I.P.
The Alexander McQueen : Savage Beauty exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is mind-blowing. The curator managed to create an experience that, I imagine, replicates wearing his clothes: woman as mythical creature. The Met has extended the show until August 7th and introduced a new program, Met Mondays with McQueen, which will allow visitors to view the exhibit on Mondays (while the Museum is closed to the public).
