Oscar de la Renta: American Elegance
May 11, 2006 - May 27, 2007
Kent State University Museum
, Ohio
The career of Oscar de la Renta, along with examples of the elegant day and evening wear that he created for discerning women, will be featured at the Kent State University Museum in Kent, Ohio, through May 27, 2007.
The Kent State University Museum has received three important gifts from Oscar de la Renta that encompass his career. In 1983, he presented the founders of the museum, Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman, with 45 pieces from his spring 1982 collection. Again in 1986, he presented 38 pieces from the earliest phase of his career, beginning with designs he created for the Jane Derby label. In addition, in response to a request to lend dresses from a current collection for this exhibition, Oscar de la Renta has given the museum four spectacular pieces from his spring 2006 collection. The exhibition is drawn from these gifts and those of other donors and spans his career from his arrival in New York in 1963 until the present.
The exhibition highlights the consistent design approach to creating collections that include as many as 93 different looks, as did the 1982 collection, and demonstrates the masterful use of theme and variations in building the large and diverse collections Oscar de la Renta shows each year. DVDs of the spring 1982 and the spring and fall 2006 collections will help to provide a larger context for the pieces shown in the exhibition.
The Kent State University Museum is grateful to the Friends of Fashion for their support of this exhibition, to the Ohio Arts Council for a two-year Sustainability Grant, and to the John P. Murphy Foundation for a grant to enhance museum lighting.
Contact:
Jean L. Druesedow
330-672-3000
Kent State University Museum
, Ohio
The career of Oscar de la Renta, along with examples of the elegant day and evening wear that he created for discerning women, will be featured at the Kent State University Museum in Kent, Ohio, through May 27, 2007.
The Kent State University Museum has received three important gifts from Oscar de la Renta that encompass his career. In 1983, he presented the founders of the museum, Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman, with 45 pieces from his spring 1982 collection. Again in 1986, he presented 38 pieces from the earliest phase of his career, beginning with designs he created for the Jane Derby label. In addition, in response to a request to lend dresses from a current collection for this exhibition, Oscar de la Renta has given the museum four spectacular pieces from his spring 2006 collection. The exhibition is drawn from these gifts and those of other donors and spans his career from his arrival in New York in 1963 until the present.
The exhibition highlights the consistent design approach to creating collections that include as many as 93 different looks, as did the 1982 collection, and demonstrates the masterful use of theme and variations in building the large and diverse collections Oscar de la Renta shows each year. DVDs of the spring 1982 and the spring and fall 2006 collections will help to provide a larger context for the pieces shown in the exhibition.
The Kent State University Museum is grateful to the Friends of Fashion for their support of this exhibition, to the Ohio Arts Council for a two-year Sustainability Grant, and to the John P. Murphy Foundation for a grant to enhance museum lighting.
Contact:
Jean L. Druesedow
330-672-3000