Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
August 16, 2025
September 13, 2022
Guo Pei ~ Legion of Honor general tableaux
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Viewfinder link:
Next gallery
Lincoln Park
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94121
415-750-3600
YouTube links:
FF Chanel ~ Guo Pei | Fall Winter 2019/2020 | (Full Show)
Wall St. Journal ~ Meet Guo Pei, China's 1st Haute Couture Designer
Guo Pei ~ Fantasy Fashion Designer
~ I only recently, less than a year, heard about Chinese fashion designer, Guo Pei, the stereotypical "Overnight" sensation who worked for decades before being "Discovered".
Guo rocketed to international stardom when singer/actress Rihanna wore the gown shown at right to the 2015 Met Gala. The theme of the gala that year was, China: Through the Looking Glass. As they say, the rest is history!
Rihanna later confessed to Vanity Fair that she was not all that confident of herself in it and "Felt like a Clown."
Guo had been creating her fantasy fashions for Chinese celebrities for decades, was considered a national treasure, was funded by the Chinese Government but was unheard of outside of China until that fateful evening.
Jess Cartner-Morley of The Guardian
wrote, "Rihanna's wardrobe is the most talked-about, influential
and dissected in pop right now" and that whatever she wears "is
immediately reproduced on the high street, because it sells".
Guo was born in Beijing in 1967 to two members of China's Communist Party, her father being a former battalion leader of the People's Army and her mother being a kindergarten teacher. In an interview with Forbes magazine, she recalls her father having thrown away her sketches and paintings as a child.
In the same interview Guo says she got her start in sewing at the age
of 2 years old, helping her mother make clothes for the winter and
developed her love for dressmaking. During her childhood, Mao suits were considered the only correct form of clothing and Guo Pei defied this with loose-fitting dresses.
When the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco opened their exhibition, Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy, in April of this year, I decided I HAD to see it. I finally did last month and was completely blown away!
I
managed to get dozens of photos of the wildly visual creations which
are a brilliant melding, mixture, blending or collision, however you
want to describe it, of fashion and art. I have not seen anything like them since my days
working with Obiko in San Francisco (link below); I wonder if she ever saw those shows?
Viewfinder link:
I will group the images into categories for separate articles in order to keep them from
getting totally out of hand and tedious for reading. I will post them in the links below as I do. I hope you enjoy
them.
The exhibition will be open until
Sunday, November 27, 2022, Tuesdays through Sundays, 9:30 am to 5:15 pm.
I have every intention of returning to see it in more depth.
Lincoln Park
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94121
415-750-3600
Net links:
SCAD ~ Guo Pei ~ Couture Beyond
YouTube links:
FF Chanel ~ Guo Pei | Fall Winter 2019/2020 | (Full Show)
Wall St. Journal ~ Meet Guo Pei, China's 1st Haute Couture Designer
Guo Pei articles
Guo Pei ~
Legion of Honor ~
Pt. 1 general tableaux
Pt. 2 boots & shoes
Pt. 3 pairs
Site still under consruction
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more articles coming
August 8, 2022
August 9, 2019
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Perelman Building
Rodin Museum
Main Building
The three main galleries of the Perelman Building feature exhibitions of photography, fashion and textiles, and contemporary design.
The greatest collections of works by Auguste Rodin, the father of modern sculpture and the only dedicated Rodin Museum outside France. The Museum—designed by architect Paul Cret and landscape architect
Jacques Gréber—opened to the public in 1929 and was restored to its
original splendor in 2012.
Includes original casts of renowned masterpieces like The Gates of Hell, The Thinker, Eternal Springtime, and others.
Net links:
Rodin Museum
Viewfinder links:
March 18, 2018
February 11, 2018
June 20, 2017
October 15, 2013
Ignacio Peri
On Aug. 24, 1983, I produced a fashion show for Ignacio Peri at the Scottish Rite Temple at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California (see link below). Ignacio's designs were tailored, up-to-the-minute styles for the professional woman. They were brilliant designs and they were beautiful.
photographer unknown
Cocoon coat* by Ignacio Peri
photographer unknown
Cocoon coat detail by Ignacio Peri
photographer unknown
Peri was recognized by Neiman-Marcus as one of the "Seven Top Bay Area Designers" in 1983, and was chosen by the California Apparel Mart as one of ten designers to create a special wardrobe for Ethel Bradley (wife of L. A. Mayor Tom Bradley), to wear to the 1984 Olympics. Other celebrities he dressed included Jane Wyman and Meryl Streep. He was the owner of Impromtu, a boutique at Blackhawk Plaza in Danville, as well as Arlington Arcade in Oakland.
Peri was a judge for the
weavers
and
spinners
fashion
show
held on May 5, 1983
in
conjunction
with
the
30th
annual
conference
of the
Northern California Handweavers Guild, Secrets
of
the
Loom. He was also a judge for, L' Image, the 1993 Asian Fashion Modeling Competition.
Ignacio
Peri, Jr. was a native of Tampa, Fla., and a graduate of Florida State University and the University of California at Berkeley. He was a
former member of the Alameda Arts Commission and an instructor of design
at Laney College in Oakland. He died on July 18, 1995; he was 55.
Ignacio Peri Jr. ~ SFGate OBITUARY
Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, August 30, 1995
* Cocoon Coat shown above is for sale by Mags Rags on Etsy
Scottish Rite Temple, Oakland
Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, August 30, 1995
* Cocoon Coat shown above is for sale by Mags Rags on Etsy
Designs well remembered!
Scottish Rite Temple, Oakland
Styrous® ~ October 15, 2013
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August 15, 2013
Styrous® & Fashion
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Bride Chic ~ España ~ When art meets fashion
Bride Chic ~ What's New In the Gown Gallery
Britex Fabrics - Designer Spotlight Series
Fashion shoot in El Raval 1
Bride Chic ~ España ~ When art meets fashion
Bride Chic ~ What's New In the Gown Gallery
Britex Fabrics - Designer Spotlight Series
Fashion shoot in El Raval 1
Obiko
Craft of the Costume art-to-wear fashion show
Craft of the Costume art-to-wear fashion show
Green links in the articles lead to more information about the article.
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