The Bones Brigade
Fashion And Architecture Connect At L.A.'s Moca
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It¿s no small feat to steal the spotlight from Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, but at Saturday night¿s opening gala for the MOCA exhibit, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture, they were only the second-most buzzed-about intergenerational couple. First was the mother-daughter team of Carol and Jacqueline Appel, who turned heads in vintage gowns by Junya Watanabe. "I got mine in 1999," said Jacqueline, a Toronto-based designer and stylist, of her shell-pink confection. "I bagged it and tagged it, and have been waiting for the right occasion to wear it ever since."
She certainly picked the right night. Six years in the making, the show features work from avant-garde designers and architects, including Issey Miyake, Alexander McQueen, Frank Gehry, Narciso Rodriguez, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Peter Eisenman.
Other guests were less inclined to emulate the cutting-edge aesthetic on display. Many of the celebrities in attendance, including Demi and Ashton, Rachel Griffiths, Michele Hicks, and Arianne Phillips, opted for the safe sartorial route of basic black. A notable exception was Debi Mazar, retro-futuristic in a vintage white jumpsuit by Isabel Toledo.
Following the preview at MOCA, the sellout crowd of over 600 was shuttled a few blocks away to the museum's Geffen Contemporary annex for dinner and a performance by Rufus Wainwright. Before launching into his song Beauty Mark, the singer noted, ¿This song has fashion and architecture—there¿s a line that talks about making curtains into clothes."
Making the link more effectively was an installation at the entrance of the Geffen. A collaboration by designers Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues, who have previously worked with Gehry, it consisted of thousands upon thousands of T-shirts, some tied to a net overhead, others packed tightly into bales on the ground. "Some people have asked me about the bales," Ball reported. "They want to use them as ottomans or something."
She certainly picked the right night. Six years in the making, the show features work from avant-garde designers and architects, including Issey Miyake, Alexander McQueen, Frank Gehry, Narciso Rodriguez, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Peter Eisenman.
Other guests were less inclined to emulate the cutting-edge aesthetic on display. Many of the celebrities in attendance, including Demi and Ashton, Rachel Griffiths, Michele Hicks, and Arianne Phillips, opted for the safe sartorial route of basic black. A notable exception was Debi Mazar, retro-futuristic in a vintage white jumpsuit by Isabel Toledo.
Following the preview at MOCA, the sellout crowd of over 600 was shuttled a few blocks away to the museum's Geffen Contemporary annex for dinner and a performance by Rufus Wainwright. Before launching into his song Beauty Mark, the singer noted, ¿This song has fashion and architecture—there¿s a line that talks about making curtains into clothes."
Making the link more effectively was an installation at the entrance of the Geffen. A collaboration by designers Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues, who have previously worked with Gehry, it consisted of thousands upon thousands of T-shirts, some tied to a net overhead, others packed tightly into bales on the ground. "Some people have asked me about the bales," Ball reported. "They want to use them as ottomans or something."
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