Ensemble
Fashion and art are always the first to welcome the outcast into society. Giorgio di Sant'Angelo's ascription of beauty to the prostitute is a significant avowal for the new classless beauty of the 1970s and after. Irony and media have both allowed the transfiguration, but the important and signal statement made by post-1960s fashion is that beauty will not be found in the haughty reiteration of social fashion but in the enlargement of fashion ideas.
Artwork Details
- Title: Ensemble
- Design House: Giorgio di Sant'Angelo (American, born Italy, 1933–1989)
- Designer: Martin F. Price
- Date: fall/winter 1992–93
- Culture: American
- Medium: a) fur, wool
b,c) fur, synthetic
d) silk - Credit Line: Gift of Martin F. Price, 2003
- Object Number: 2003.255.5a–d
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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