Pre-fall 2016 Series: Valentino

An inspired, arty collection of elaborately decorated,  celebratory pieces, mixing thoughts of 

traditional cultural costumes, Evel Knievel,/racecar drivers, Mexico/Kahlo & mod

Evel 

John Leguizamo as Tybalt in Romeo+Juliet (1996)

Our Lady of Guadalupe

also known as 'the Virgin of Guadalupe', is a Roman Catholic title for the Blessed Virgin Mary. 

This depiction is based on an image in the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in México City

some tie-dye for good measure, w/ a gladiator-flap nod

sheer embroidered kimono, very reminiscent of both Angelina Jolie's embroidered wedding gown: 

& Gaga's Bowie tribute suit:

& 1970's Elvis, of course:

Star camo

Animal embroidery

Mexican Painter Frida Kahlo

Kahlo

New Kind of V-Day

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Charlotte Harber - Happiness In Red

Oil & Latex on Cloth

Cildo Meireles’s Missão/Missões (How to Build Cathedrals) detail

with 600,000 pennies

at Blanton Museum of Art,  Austin, TX

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Kembra Pfahler

Robert Therrien - RED ROOM 2000–7

Cildo Meireles’s Missão/Missões (How to Build Cathedrals), detail

installation includes 2,000 hanging hanging bones, & 800 communion wafers

CocoRosie

Frida Kahlo, "Self-Portrait as a Tehuana," 1943. Oil on masonite.

Tehuantepec is a city and municipality in the southeast of the Mexican state of Oaxaca

Frida Kahlo lying in a hospital bed holding a mirror angled to paint her body cast.

The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black

Melted wax creates a candle holder. 

at: Maison Margiela Objects & Publications