While its former home on 53rd Street faces the wrecking ball, New York’s American Folk Art Museum is—to borrow from Project Runway host Tim Gunn—making it work in a new, smaller space elsewhere in Manhattan. This week, the museum unveiled Folk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art, an exhibition of couture fashion creations framed by the work of fabrication-focused architecture firm Situ Studio.
Guest curator Alexis Carreño selected just over 100 objects from the museum’s collection and invited New-York designers—including Catherine Malandrino, Creatures of the Wind, and Michael Bastian—to respond to one or more of them by making a one-of-a-kind costume. “We asked thirteen designers to consider the aesthetic qualities and historic importance of works of art in our collection, and create a visual dialogue,” said Museum director Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice. “They are responding in dramatic and surprising ways.”
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