On October 2 a new exhibit will open at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the new Resnick Exhibition Pavilion entitled Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915.  Pulled from their collection of more than 1,000 pieces, selections will include silk embroidered stockings, French Revolution propaganda menswear, and a Paul Poiret designed evening outfit.  Most of the collection was acquired in 2007 by museum director Michael Govan and the exhibit is being curated by Sharon Takeda and Kaye Spilker.

This promises to be a ground breaking exhibit featuring the handcrafted, one of a kind clothing of the European aristocracy and the evolution it went through during this 200-year span.  The details on these items are a representation of the best of the best in tailoring, hand work, and construction.  The exhibition catalog will have a pre-face by John Galliano and will hopefully be sold in the LACMA Shop for those of us who might not be able to make it to L.A. but don't want to miss this.

(Museum Associates / LACMA)

(Museum Associates / LACMA)