When: Date: February 12, 2011
Time: 9:00 AM
Where: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Beverly Hills / Westside) 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 90036
Admission: Members $30, nonmembers $35 (refreshments and parking fees included)
Join LACMA educators Kristin Bengtson and Mary Lenihan, along with Costumes and Textiles curator Nicole LaBouff, the museums Wallis Annenberg Curatorial Fellow, as they offer a look at how artistic and cultural traditions influenced fashion, and how fashion influenced art. A tour in both the permanent collection galleries and the temporary exhibition, Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915, will reveal the deep and lasting influences of the Asian aesthetic on European dress, and how European fashion found its way into great paintings.
Brown Auditorium | Members $30, nonmembers $35 (refreshments and parking fees included) Reservations: 323 8576010.
http://www.lacma.org/