New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is set to open an exhibit, dedicated to the style sense of yesteryear’s screen diva Lauren Bacall, from March 3 to April 4, 2015.
Organised and curated by the institution’s graduate students, the exhibition features around a dozen dresses selected from a collection of over 700 that the actress had donated to the museum between 1968 and 1986.New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is set to open an exhibit, dedicated to the style sense of yesteryear's screen diva Lauren Bacall, #
The display titled ‘Lauren Bacall: The Look’ features outfits designed between the 1960s and 1970s by Marc Bohan, Pierre Cardin, Norman Norell, Yves Saint Laurent and Emanuel Ungaro.
Some of the major attractions include a Norell vivid pink wool coat and a two-piece dress worn by the Bronx-born star in her 1964 film Sex and the Single Girl, a Cardin minidress accented with moulded 3-D pyramid shapes donned in the 1968 television show Bacall and the Boys, and a Christian Dior silk jersey evening dress with ostrich feathers.
The exhibit also showcases a Norell tan overcoat with gold sequined lining and a matching sequin sheath dress, an Ungaro silk damask pantsuit and a beaded sequined silk organza dress by Laurent. (PB)
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