Showing posts with label Halston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halston. Show all posts

Sunday, February 8, 2015

YVES SAINT LAURENT + HALSTON: FASHIONING THE 70s

 Yves Saint Laurent + Halston: Fashion: Fashioning the 70s at the Museum at FIT

Wedged in between the Flower Power 60s and preppy, sports-inspired 80s, the disco era of the 1970s was wrought with residual hints of hippie chic and an emerging punk culture. As emblazoning new designers engaged in exploratory endeavors, Algerian-born Yves Saint Laurent and American Roy Halston Frowick defined and developed fashion in the 'decade fashion forgot.' Until April 18th, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology presents Yves Saint Laurent + Halston: Fashioning the 70san exhibit comparing select works of two designers with careers on parallel paths and an overlapping aesthetic in the stylistically stagnant 70s. Keep reading for a look inside the exhibit...