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Kabuki c.1980
(Model Susan Norrie)
Collection of National Gallery of Victoria
Photographer John Lethbridge
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Straddling the boundaries between art and fashion, Katie Pye was an
Australian fashion iconoclast throughout the 1980s. Individual,
experimental and highly unorthodox, her work constantly challenged the
conventional limitations of fashionable dress. Integrating performance,
design, art and fashion, Pye represented an energetic current that
introduced new visual and conceptual models to Australian fashion.
Clothes for Modern Lovers
charts Pye’s work from the late 1970s through to 1990. Illustrative of
her constantly evolving design idiom, the exhibition features Pye's
early avant-garde works, signature explorations of graphic form and
innovative fabric treatments, her rule-breaking art wear and key
examples from her commercial ranges. Over 30 outfits from the NGV
collection will be displayed alongside contextual photography and video
works.
26 May 2007 to 13 January 2008
Myer Fashion and Textiles Gallery
Gallery 12, Level 2
Admission Free
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