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CODED_COUTURE

ORGANIZER AND DATES
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
February 12-April 30, 2016

TOUR
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
September 10-December 4, 2016

Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts
January 24-May 21, 2017

Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City
June 29-August 10, 2017

Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
January 27-April 28, 2018

DESCRIPTION
The idea of customization has always been at the heart of couture: the gown made to fit perfectly; hand-beading, hand-stitching and other time-consuming processes involved in the creation of couture garments that reinforce the notion of the piece as a work of art with a specific connection to the owner. The digital age has introduced a new approach to personalized fashion, and in some cases, a new iteration of couture. This exhibition features designers whose approach to personalization is sympathetic to the allure of haute couture but whose approach is rooted in coding.

DESIGNERS
Marloes ten Bhömer (NL); Melissa Coleman/Leonic Smelt/Joachim Rotteveel (UK,NL); Amy Congdon (UK); Cute Circuit (UK); Cedric Flazinski (FR,CA); Ying Gao (CA); Mary Huang (US); Normals (FR); Simon Thorogood (UK); Alison Tsai (TW,US)

CATALOGUE
Published by Pratt Institute Brooklyn, the fully-illustrated catalogue contains an essay by exhibition curators Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox and biographies of the designers as well as an essay by Katharine K. Zarrella. 

Exhibition design by Blumlein Associates, Inc. (US)