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Sophie Milenovich : a new look at couture : Allentown Art Museum, July 21-September 29, 2002

Title: Sophie Milenovich : a new look at couture : Allentown Art Museum, July 21-September 29, 2002 / an exhibition organized by Ruta T. Saliklis.
Author: Milenovich, Sophie.
Publication: Allentown, Pa. : Allentown Art Museum, 2002.

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12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 19 cm

Summary

"Haute couture" is French for "high" or "elegant sewing" a term used since the 1800s in Europe and America for custom-made high fashion women's clothes. Couturiers design and create for a select clientele, those who are able to pay thousands of dollars for a single article of clothing. French artist Sophie Milenovich takes a closer look at the forms and techniques of tailoring in her multi-media installation at the Allentown Art Museum. In couture, two-dimensional textiles are cut to fit the specific dimensions of the intended wearer. The process of sewing yields a three-dimensional form that serves a specific function in a garment, i.e., collar, cuff or lapel. Milenovich deconstructs this process by placing single pattern pieces onto her own body and showing how the two-dimensional textiles are transformed into three-dimensional entities when they are forced to adapt to the complex armature of the body. She does this by displaying the pattern pieces as flat abstract forms on tables, as if they were just cut from bolts of cloth. The flat pattern pieces will be installed together with drawings of the patterns and photographs of the artist wearing the same pattern piece on her own body"--Publisher's description.

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Exhibition catalogs.

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Catalog of the exhibition.

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ReCAP 17-19244

OCLC

53046898

Author

Milenovich, Sophie.

Title

Sophie Milenovich : a new look at couture : Allentown Art Museum, July 21-September 29, 2002 / an exhibition organized by Ruta T. Saliklis.

Imprint

Allentown, Pa. : Allentown Art Museum, 2002.

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text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Saliklis, Ruta T.

Allentown Art Museum.

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ReCAP 17-19244

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