Exhibitions

American Cool: What is cool to you?

What is American Cool? One of the highlights from our family trip to Washington, D.C. this weekend was taking in the "American Cool" exhibition of 100 People Who Define Cool in Arresting Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery. It's a collection of 100 photos that go deep into the soul of those who posess that certain edge. In this selfie world of "duck lips" and "signature poses" we often lose the spontainaity that comes with honestly capturing oneself as these photos of icons Laureen Bacall, Patti Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Depp, Michael Jordan, Deborah Harry, Susan Sarandon and the spontenaity of those images work to showcase each subject's individual style. Honestly, cool is probably the most overused word in my personal vocabulary.

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Dita Von Teese & Jean Paul Gaultier at the Dallas Museum of Art

The elegant, controlled theatricality of Dita Von Teese's work, lifestyle and sense of dress made for a fitting match as she escorted designer Jean Paul Gaultier to the opening of his retrospective at the Dallas Museum of Art this week. We're loving her JPG gown with its asymmetrical military inspired bust and haute Parisian dose of subtle flair. -Naveed Hussain

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“The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier” Comes to Dallas this November

Barbès collection
Besides the now iconic cone bra's he outfitted Madonna for in the early 90's, the highly controversial Hasidic-inspired collection for Fall 1993 and the many in-your-face ethnic influenced collections ripe with rigorous tailoring that have followed, fashion's original enfant terrible, Jean Paul Gaultier, will forever be a designer who's done much more than that in our books. Long before today's mega names associated with showmanship like John Galliano and Alexander McQueen, there was Gaultier. From indigenous garb to religious connotations to hi-camp athleticism, Gaultier has dazzled the fashion world with a heady tour de force of provocative, imaginative creations brought to life with a hearty dose of brazen wit and fierce execution. Possessing the kind of game changing substance that informs one on the sublime delicacies that high French fashion will

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