SKIN + BONES: PARALLEL PRACTICES IN FASHION AND ARCHITECTURE

[€uroMeinke]

Perhaps this really belongs in the Jetset Forum but, I got this notice from MOCA today:

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Hussein Chalayan, Tulle Dress # 2 (from Before Minus Now collection), Spring/Summer 2000, Photo © Chris Moore


MOCA MEMBER NEWS/OCTOBER

SAVE THE DATE!
SKIN + BONES: PARALLEL PRACTICES IN FASHION AND ARCHITECTURE MEMBERS’ OPENING PARTY---FREE TO MOCA MEMBERS
SATURDAY, NOV 25, 7-11PM
MOCA GRAND AVENUE
Get ready for another legendary MOCA Members’ Opening Party! The most innovative names in fashion and architecture are coming to MOCA this November with Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture . Top fashion designers and the world’s leading architects are represented by over 300 couture and ready-to-wear garments, runway footage, full scale installations, photographs, and architecture models.
I know nothing yet beyond the blurb, but I'm already intrigued and think the opening party would be ultra-swanky - I may just have to go.

[Not Afraid]

Well, their openings are a LOT of fun. I think we get 2 guests admitted with our membership and there has to be other MOCA members on the board.

If not the opening party, then we must plan at Swanking. We're long overdue for one anyways.

[Alex]

Are you allowed to gently hold the models' hands and whisper "it's ok, we blame the designer for your humiliation, not you"?

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Oh Alex, I'm so glad I didn't have a mouthfull of water when I read that! Good One!!

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I'm a member. And I'm interested. Sweet.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Pardon the derail, but is there a difference between modern and contemporary art? Are they the same thing?

[Alex]

My understanding is that modern art covers the late 1800s through the 1960s and contemporary art takes you from the end of the '60s to current.

No idea, though, if that is a hard line observed in contemporary or modern art museums.

[lizziebith]

Given the title, I expected a discussion of anorexic building practices! :p

[DreadPirateRoberts]

My understanding is that modern art covers the late 1800s through the 1960s and contemporary art takes you from the end of the '60s to current.

No idea, though, if that is a hard line observed in contemporary or modern art museums.

Thanks!

[Not Afraid]

Alex gets an A+ in Art History for the day. :)

[Gemini Cricket]

Speaking of skin and bones...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b268/braddoc310/bones.jpg

Ewwww!!!!!!

[tracilicious]

Are we sure that isn't photoshopped?

[Gemini Cricket]

Are we sure that isn't photoshopped?
I don't think it is.
I got it off of Yahoo's most viewed pictures for today.
Source (http://news.yahoo.com/photo/061007/ids_photos_en/r1556750300.jpg)

[tracilicious]

I think you are right. There is a rear view for the same model/dress. Gotta love the concentration camp look. :rolleyes:

[Gemini Cricket]

I think you are right. There is a rear view for the same model/dress. Gotta love the concentration camp look. :rolleyes:
I bet her friends call her "the fat one".
:D

[Sub la Goon]

The photo GC put up is what I thought of when I read the title of this thread. I saw that on my Yahoo homepage and figured it for an anorexia story.

[Not Afraid]

The photo GC put up is what I thought of when I read the title of this thread. I saw that on my Yahoo homepage and figured it for an anorexia story.

Knowing MOCA, that was intentional.

[€uroMeinke]

Just got my invite in the mail for the opening - admission is $15 for non-members

[Isaac]

Well, it looks like iSm & I will be attending.

Who else ?

[€uroMeinke]

Cool, Lisa and I will be there.

MOCA Members are free (of which we are) and I think it's $15.00 for non-members. I think there's supposed to be a limit of two non-members per invite, but in my previous experience, it didn't seem this was enforced at all.

[lashbear]

Can't make it - sorry. Eat something in front of the models for me.

[innerSpaceman]

Do you have two non-members yet? Otherwise, I know of two non-members who'd be interested. ;)



edited to confess:
oh, i see zapppop already posted about our attendance. move along, then. nothing to see hear.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Aw, this is tonight? Dang, I was thinking about it. Oh well.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I was going to go, but now it looks like those plans aren't going to work out. Have a wonderful time! If it's fantastic, maybe you'll want to see it again without the distraction of an opening party. And there's always the current exhibit at LACHMA!

[€uroMeinke]

Interesting exhibt, I'd like to see it again without the crowd, but i an evening like this part of the fun was seeing the crowd in thier own home made fashions.

The exhibit does a good job of tying in elemets of archetecture and fashion, focusing on structure and engineering. It's cool to see some of the clothes in real life, but sometimes it was better to see on video to see them move. The one in the attached photo, was awsome to see moving around someone like a giant sea sponge.

The architectural models and photos were also cool - though they only made you want to go visit or build the real things - But they were also a reminder that now in the year 2006, we should all be living in some of these places by now.

The party was fun, though more to people watch than anything. The loungeing furnature was made of bales of clothing, which added to the theme, but honestly I wish they had actually done a runway show of some sort. Also it would have been cool to have some extra bales of clothes or other structural elements to play with and maybe build our own party yurts or something.

This was the first event I've been to at the downtown site, and while it was cool, I still really love the Temporary... Geffen, much more as both an Art and Party space. I also miss the days of hitting after hour dinners like the Atomic Cafe.