Lost and Found: Objects Trouves through June 14. The British artist Philippa Beveridge currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain, and graduated in art, with a specialization in architecture from the University of London in 2007. She also studied at the design art school in Massana, Spain, and at the Urban Glass in New York. This education in design, mixed with the use of glass, allows her to exhibit her artistic work worldwide. Beveridge exhibits a series of purses, a panel and her famous chestplates. Shown are a glass chestplate and purses.
New York the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents American Women:
Fashioning a National Identity, exhibiting from May 5 to August 15. The exhibition is organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the first drawn from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. Focusing on archetypes of American femininity through dress, the exhibition reveals how the American woman initiated style revolutions that mirrored her social, political and sexual emancipation. The Costume Institute Gala Benefit will take place on May 3.
1000 Fifth Ave., New York
The Museum at the Fashion Institute Of Technology, New York presents Eco-Fashion:
Going Green, an exhibition exploring the evolution of the fashion industry’s multifaceted and complex relationship with the environment. By examining the past two centuries of fashion’s good–and bad–environmental and ethical practices, Eco-Fashion: Going Green provides historical context for today’s eco-fashion movement. The exhibition runs from May 25 to November 26.
Seventh Avenue at 27 St., New York
