Art And Fashion Design

The Italian Cultural Institute, Otis College of Art and Design Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Italian Heritage Culture Foundation. “Fashion is one of those privileged places in which it is thought that the spirit of modernity, along with its plastic, erotic, and oneiric experiences, can be read” Roland Barthes. Over at least the last two decades there has been increasingly evident contamination between art, fashion, and communication, from fashion show/performances to music, from cinema to advertising, from specialized magazines to design, from photography to soap operas, as well as interior design and urban renewal in general. Fashion has entered museums, and far from being considered a minor or secondary form, it has carved out its own autonomous territory: from ‘art-à-porter’ to fashion as art. The exhibition and the round table are focused on the manifold examples of reciprocal exchange between art and fashion, beginning from twentieth-century avant-garde and modernism through postmodernism, to contemporary art and design. With special participation of the Italian Fashion Group La Perla. Round Table Discussion (3:00-5:00 P.M.) Participants Guido Fink, (IIC Director) Cristina Demaria (Università di Bologna)  Giovanna Franci (Università di Bologna) Kathryn Hagen (Otis College of Art and Design) Nancy J. Troy (University of Southern California) Followed by a fashion-show (5:30 P.M.) and the Opening Reception for the Exhibition at Spazio Italia-IIC (6:00 P.M.). Saturday, May 17, 2003, 3:00-8:00 P.M., The Italian Cultural Institute, 1023 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, 90024. Admission is free but reservations are required. 310-443-3250, ext. 114 Parking is always available at 1100 Glendon Ave. ($4-$5). IIC garage is for staff and featured artists only.