smock it to me
September 4, 2007 10:39 am

You say you want a revolution? Artist-designer Andrea Zittel has just the thing for all you style-minded rebels. Smockshop, Zittel’s newest exhibition, features over 100 one-of-a-kind wraparound smocks, handmade by Zittel’s artist friends and all a riff on her own original smock template. What’s so revolutionary about that? Zittel recommends that each smock be worn by its owner exclusively for the rest of the season. One dress for the rest of fall? That’s right. Zittel’s manifesto—Liberation through Limitation—aims to take the excessive wind out of consumerism’s sails and remind shoppers that fashion is equal parts form and function, an idea so left it’s almost right. The smocks will be on view, and on sale (they range in price from $250 to $450), at the Susan Inglett Gallery in Chelsea through October 13. The show opens this Friday.—Alison Baenen
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Smock #0062 by Tiprin Follet for Smockshop, 2007
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