Design Museum
I had been looking forward to this museum for quite sometime. I adore fashion illustration, and I prevaricate a museum dedicated to design, and an illustration just as much as I do a Fine Art Museum. Sometimes I'm concerned that people confuse my need to separate Fine Art from Design as a way to elevate the fine arts, or to say one is better than the other, when thats not entirely true. Design and Fine Art serve two different functions, and I think its important not to confuse the two. There is even, High Design, which elevates itself from commercial design, (Haute Couture Design), so there are idustry wide stadands are both ends that really do support the position I take. I come from an originally fashion background, having studied pattern making, rendering, and construction in high school, for about 2 and half years. I then switched over to the fine arts for a number of reasons, but I don't undervalue design.
While photos in the museum where discouraged, sketchbooks were! there was a small sign that said just that "Sketching encouraged" which i thought was really great for students and designers alike. The fashion illustration show had some illustrations for some major designers including Chanel, Dior, and McQueen. It showed them chronologically to show the evolution of fashion illustration from past to present. Really just a beautiful show. The one thing i would change would be uniform frames, the walls were gauzy white and lit from within making an ephemeral yet polished space, and some of the frames like the one in the picture below just seem gaudy and out of place.
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