Dress
Designer Susan Cianciolo American
Not on view
PERMANENCE 1. The quality or state of being permanent; durability:
An early exponent of recycling and upcycling, Susan Cianciolo modified and reconstructed existing garments to create designs for her clothing line RUN (1995–2001). Working with a community of collaborators, she then presented the pieces in performances that blurred the boundaries between art and fashion. This sheath dress from her RUN 8 collection is stitched in irregular lines that reshape the silhouette. Recalling the improvisational aesthetic and emotional quality of the collection, a friend reminisced: "The stitches. I remember the stitches. They were everywhere. They were brutal and fragile at the same time."
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