FROM FASHION TO ART

It's hard to go to visit a Museum or Art Gallery without tripping over a Fashion Designer this year. Yesterday we wrote about the Christian Loubertain Exhibition at London's Museum: then there is Prada & Schiaparelli at the Metropolitan Museum in NY; Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuiton at the Louvre in Paris and still to come is 'Britain Creates' at the V & A in July and then in September the one we at D.W.S. have particularly being waiting for Biba and Beyond:Barbara Hulanicki at Brighton Museum.

Meanwhile its the turn of 'retired' iconic designer Helmut Lang who has his NY debut for his installations and sculptures.  Like the garments he once designed, he has used unusual materials for his art ... this time mainly rubber.  They make for stunning visual pieces and he has high hopes that people will accept them, and his new persona, without always remembering who he once was.  Whether he achieves that only time will tell, but we are very happy to recommend that you go see and make you own mind up.

Never going the normal route about anything, Mr Lang's Exhibition is in a space that is half gallery/half private home in Greenwich village. These grand elegant rooms are the setting for the matted black sheepskins on the walls and black stalagmites sprouting from the floor. Definitely worth jumping on the Virgin flight for. 


Opens on May 5th at 24 Washington Square North, NY and will remain on display through June 15.