Ensemble
Ozbek creates a dramatic, bandstand Turquerie. The narrow top is based on Turkish military overvest, and the bubble skirt evokes the ballooning legs of Zouave pants. By the 1990s, some inhibitions haunt such hyperbolic Orientalism, associated by some with the politics of imperialsim. Ozbek, born in Turkey and living in England, accepts the possibilities and interpretive challenge of an overy exoticism without the onus of political judgment.
Artwork Details
- Title: Ensemble
- Designer: Rifat Ozbek (British, born Turkey, 1953)
- Date: fall/winter 1994–95
- Culture: British
- Medium: silk, straw, fur, metal, glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Moda & Company, 1994
- Object Number: 1994.563a–d
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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