Martin, Richard, & Harold Koda, "Bloom!"
Martin, Richard, & Harold Koda, "Bloom!"
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art | 1995 | ISBN: 0870997491 | English | PDF | 32 pages | 5.76 Mb
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art | 1995 | ISBN: 0870997491 | English | PDF | 32 pages | 5.76 Mb
Bloom is a celebration of flowers in fashion. A splendid array of flowers has always dwelled in the wardrobe, confirming that human striving for magnificence is only the simulation of nature s abundant beauty. To propose flowers in costume is, of course, to document only one of the countless floral manifestations of the Museum. Throughout The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bowers and bouquets of flowers thrive in paintings, pop into sculptural form, lend enchantment to porcelain vases and stained glass, and enhance the lush environments of manuscripts and tapestries. Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, no stranger to the singular beauty of flowers, proposed that “Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small, we haven t time.” Herewith, we insist on finding the time to look at the flowers of fashion.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Matthew 6:28-29
Bloom
Botany
Fantasy
Fleurs du Mal
Metamorphosis
Plate Captions
Botany
Fantasy
Fleurs du Mal
Metamorphosis
Plate Captions
Balenciaga, Cristobal (Spanish, 1895–1972) | Dior, Christian (French, 1905–1957) | Ellis, Perry | Fortuny, Mariano (Italian, born Spain, 1871–1949) | Givenchy, Hubert de (French, born 1927) | Lacroix, C. (Burgundian, active Genoa, late 17th–early 18th century) | Mainbocher (American, 1890–1976) | Mizrahi, Isaac | Saint Laurent, Yves (French, born Algeria, 1936) | Schiaparelli, Elsa (Italian, 1890–1973) | Valentino (Italian, born 1932)
Martin, Richard, & Harold Koda, "Bloom!"
Martin, Richard, & Harold Koda, "Bloom!"
Martin, Richard, & Harold Koda, "Bloom!"
