Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture

Thanks to technological advancements, the practices of fashion and architecture have never been so intertwined: pleating, seaming, folding, and draping are now part of the architectural vocabulary and garments of conceptual sophistication and structural complexity are making their way down the runways and onto the streets.

Designed to protect, shelter, and allow self expression, these two creative principles have been, and continue to be driving forces in our society.

From November 19, 2006 to March 5, 2007, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) presents the first major museum exhibition devoted to the extensive and telling similarities between architecture and fashion design.

Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture will be on view at the museum's Arata Isozaki designed building at MOCA Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles.

The exhibition occupies the entire museum in an installation designed by New-York based architects Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown.

Over 40 members of the fashion and design community have contributed to the exhibit making it the most extensive fashion related exhibition ever to be presented on the West coast.