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Glamour : Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture

Saturday, October 09, 2004 - Monday, January 17, 2005

One of the most alluring yet elusive concepts in contemporary style, glamour is an ideal that permeates our visual culture.

This exhibition radically revises our understanding of glamour in the fields of fashion, industrial design, and architecture.

Tracing glamour's trajectory from Hollywood's golden age to present-day connotations of affluence, Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture presents a striking array of more than 100 objects including couture, jewelry, automobiles, furniture, and architecture - all of which share an affinity for rich patterning, complex layering, and sumptuous materials.

On view are haute couture by Dior and Versace, automobiles from Jaguar and Bentley, architectural works by Philip Johnson and Herzog and de Meuron, and more.

Edited by curator Joseph Rosa, this beautifully designed publication establishes glamour as a new critical category that embraces richly ornamented, decorative patterns and forms, from the civic architecture of Edward Durell Stone to the high-end couture of John Galliano.

Following a general introduction by Rosa and an exploration of the culture and consumption of glamour by Virginia Postrel, Valerie Steele, Phil Patton, and Rosa examine the concept as it has evolved in the fields of fashion, des

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