Monday, October 19, 2020

SEE: WILLI SMITH AT COOPER HEWITT

Harlem Bespoke: The Cooper Hewitt on Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile still has been closed off to the public but those who want catch the Willi Smith exhibit can see 158 images of the notable fashion designer's legacy online.  

During his twenty-year career Willi Smith (1948–1987) united fashion and American culture, marrying affordable, adaptable basics with avant-garde performance, film, art, and design. Smith hoped to solve what he called "the problem of getting dressed," or the lack of control fashion afforded the everyday person, by using clothing as a tool for the liberation of stereotypes around race, class, sex, and gender, and bringing art into the mainstream: LINK

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