The Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection project is featured in this summer’s edition of the UCA Alumni Magazine:
Zandra Rhodes watercolour on the front cover of UCA Alumni Magazine, Summer 2013.
Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection project featured in UCA Alumni Magazine.
Opening on 9th May 2013 is an exciting new fashion exhibition, PUNK: Chaos to Couture, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Detail from ensemble from The Conceptual Chic Collection, 1977-8 © Zandra Rhodes 2012.
The exhibition will “examine punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the 1970s through to its continuing influence today” and features pieces by a number of big names of the fashion world, including several from The Conceptual Chic Collection, 1977-8, by Zandra Rhodes.
Ensemble from The Conceptual Chic Collection, 1977-8 © Zandra Rhodes 2012.
The exhibition’s curator, Andrew Bolton, had been considering a punk exhibition for some time and describes how “the first time it was adopted into high fashion was really with Zandra Rhodes in 1977 (WWD, 2012).”
Zandra Rhodes was also seen wearing one of her punk-inspired outfits at The Costume Institute Gala to celebrate the launch of the exhibition on 6th May 2013.
Page from the Zandra Rhodes Style Bibles, showing The Conceptual Chic Collection, 1977-8 © Zandra Rhodes 2012.
To view a more comprehensive selection of punk-inspired outfits and dresses from The Conceptual Chic Collection, see the Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection.
