On view now by means of March 16, Pratt Manhattan Gallery’s new exhibition, The New Village: Ten Years of New York Fashion, focuses on a scene of artists and trend designers from the previous 10 years who’ve re-established New York as a worldwide chief in experimental trend.
Curated by Jennifer Minniti, Chair of Pratt Institute’s Trend Division, alongside trend curator Matthew Linde, the present attracts inspiration from The East Village, the Museum on the Trend Institute of Expertise’s influential 1986 trend exhibition. It spotlights an ecosystem of smaller trend manufacturers, visionary designers embracing DIY trend, and artists who’ve been essential collaborators traversing the boundaries between trend and artwork.
“The New Village: Ten Years of New York Trend will showcase the work of a era of influential artists, designers, and collectives whose emergent and avant-garde inventive practices are flourishing by means of trend,” states Minniti.
“This exhibition factors to another historical past to the commercialism that has historically outlined New York’s trend trade,” says Linde. “It emphasizes an amorphous group of practitioners who’ve reshaped the style capital from the fringes and whose affect has altered the worldwide trend scene.”
The featured artists, designers, and collectives work throughout numerous mediums, together with clothes, movies, sculptures, drawings, installations, and poetry, to amplify and mirror the philosophy of defining trend as cultural messaging by means of garments. This huge assortment of their work is meant to intensify the political and social challenges dealing with modern society by means of the lens of inventive industries.
The exhibition connects to standard trend exhibition-making methods similar to clothes mounted on mannequins on plinths and experimental strategies utilizing sculptural armatures and video projection. It goals to mirror the varied experimental methods designers make use of in crafting their collections. Exploring and celebrating the colourful dialogue between these practitioners, The New Village: Ten Years of New York Trend highlights the cultural richness and new experimental undercurrents that outline this motion in trend.
The complete listing of designers contains ALL-IN, Bernadette Company x SUPREME, Camilla Carper, CDLM, CFGNY, Susan Cianciolo, Eckhaus Latta, Gauntlett Cheng, Giovanna Flores, Lou Dallas, Luar, Jessi Reaves, SC103, Part 8, Beverly Semmes + CarWash Collective, Martine Syms, Telfar, Vaquera, Elena Velez, and Girls’s Historical past Museum.
The New Village: Ten Years of New York Trend is open by means of March 16 at 144 West 14th Avenue. There’s a public reception on February 8 from 6–8 pm. Pratt Manhattan Gallery is free and open to the general public.
For extra info, go to pratt.edu.