Photos Helen’s Blog April 10 – May 19 2023
More Credits on Website. Collage by helenoppenheim.com
Collage of photos, hair history, info and inspo on Helen’s Blog from April 10 to May 19, 2023. (Some the dates may not be 100% accurate with a blog or two out of order, but are close)
Top & 2nd Rows: Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty, the Costume Institute’s Spring 2023 Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Photos: The Metropolitan Museum of Art , Top Left Photo: Lagerfeld at work by Annie Leibovitz,)
Rows 3 & 4, far left: Easter Parade 5th Avenue Fab Fun Hats (Photos: Helen Oppenheim)
Row 3, right: Marcel Waves Return, Again: (Photos left and center: Hair Kim Lepine/Antonio da Costa Rocha, Photos Serge Beauchemin, right: Hair Kim Lepine, Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre)
Row 4, right:Marcel Waves Return, Again (L-R: Hair Paul Labreque, Marco Vogt, Romero Jennings/Mac Cosmetics, all Photos:Helen Oppenheim at NY Fashion Weeks). to see the latest Helen’s Blogs highlighting work archived on this website, CLICK HERE
CommentPhotos Helen’s Blog April 10 – May 19 2023
More Credits on Website. Collage by helenoppenheim.com
Collage of photos, hair history, info and inspo on Helen’s Blog from April 10 to May 19, 2023. (Some the dates may not be 100% accurate with a blog or two out of order, but are close)
Top & 2nd Rows: Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty, the Costume Institute’s Spring 2023 Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Photos: The Metropolitan Museum of Art , Top Left Photo: Lagerfeld at work by Annie Leibovitz,)
Rows 3 & 4, far left: Easter Parade 5th Avenue Fab Fun Hats (Photos: Helen Oppenheim)
Row 3, right: Marcel Waves Return, Again: (Photos left and center: Hair Kim Lepine/Antonio da Costa Rocha, Photos Serge Beauchemin, right: Hair Kim Lepine, Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre)
Row 4, right:Marcel Waves Return, Again (L-R: Hair Paul Labreque, Marco Vogt, Romero Jennings/Mac Cosmetics, all Photos:Helen Oppenheim at NY Fashion Weeks). To see All Collages archived on the Website, CLICK HERE
CommentKarl Lagerfeld @ Met Museum May 5 – 2023
Photos: The Metropolitan Museum of Art., Collages: helenoppenheim.com
The Costume Institute’s Spring Exhibition Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, May 5th and will be at the Tisch Galleries on Fifth Avenue, Gallery 899, until July 16, 2023.
The Exhibition features almost 200 items – sketches and garments for Chanel, Fendi and the Karl Lagerfeld brands – and for Chloé, Balmain, Patou.
Spotlighted, Lagerfeld’s “unique working methodology, focusing on the late designer’s stylistic vocabulary as it was expressed in “through lines” – aesthetic and conceptual themes that appear time and again – in his fashions from the 1950s to his final collection in 2019. The exhibition is made possible by Chanel, with major support by Fendi and additional funding provided by Karl Lagerfeld and Condé Nast.
All designs by Karl Lagerfeld (French, born Germany, 1933-2019)
First Collage Top L-R : Karl Lagerfeld at work (Portrait Annie Leibovitz)…
Sketch Chanel Coat, Fall 2014 … Runway Coat, Fall 2024
2nd Row : Rachmaninoff Sketch, Dress Chloe, Spring 1973 …
Rachmaninoff Runway, Dress Chloe, Spring 1973 … Wedding Dress, Spring 2015.
Photos: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Second Collage Top L-R: Title Gallery … 21 _ Canonical Line
2nd Row: 33 – Satirical Line … 13_ Romantic Line
Photos: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Next Met Costume Institute Exhibition – 2016
Photo: © Jean-Baptiste Mondino
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s next Costume Institute Exhibition will focus on Technology’s impact on Fashion. From May 5 to August 14, 2016. Sponsored by Apple, a perfect fit. “The Exhibition will explore the impact of new technology on fashion and how designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready to wear.” There will be more than 100 examples dating from an 1880s Worth gown to a 2015 Chanel suit. The manus x machina: fashion in an age of technology is organized by Andrew Bolton, Curator of The Costume Institute, the first time in charge for my favorite curator. The Met Gala, which will take place on May 2, 2016, will include Co-Chairs Taylor Swift and Anna Wintour, Hononary Chairs will include Karl Lagerfeld, Nicholas Ghesquière, Miuccia Prada. The fabulous feather dress with bird heads here is by Iris van Herpen, Fall/Winter 2013-14. To see some of the past Costume Institute Exhibitions, click HERE
Photo: Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Met Museum Extends China Exhibition – 2015
Photos: © Helen Oppenheim
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has extended hours for the final weekend of its much-visited and very popular China: Through the Looking Glass Exhibition. The exhibition, which opened May 7, has so far drawn more than 730,000 visitors, surpassing the record-breaking Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty 2011 exhibition, and is now The Costume institute’s highest attended exhibition ever. Curated by Andrew Bolton, this must-see exhibition will be open to midnight on Friday, September 4 and Saturday, September 5 (Appetizers and full bar service will be at the Museum’s Great Hall Balcony Bar until midnight) and it closes on Labor Day, Monday, September 7. Expect crowds. But it will be worth it …
Photos: © Helen Oppenheim shown above – blue and white porcelain inspirations. Left, smashed up plate dress by Alexander McQueen, right dress by Gue Pei. More to drool over or, if you miss the exhibition, click HERE
Chinese Fashion Alert – 2015
Photos: Top/Bottom Left: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photography: © Platon. Right: © Helen Oppenheim
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “China Through The Looking Glass” exhibition now at their Costume Institute and the Anna Wintour Costume Center is so gorgeous, in every way, from fashions to the Stephen Jones head treatments to the presentation by the curator, Andrew Bolton, that Chinese fashions will soon be the rage. The must-see exhibition, worth a trip to New York City all by itself, is on until August 16, 2015.
Shown here, Top Left, evening dress by Valentino SpA, from the 2013 “Shanghai” collection. Bottom Left, John Galliano’s couture dress for the House of Dior, Autumn/Winter 1997/98. Right: Ralph Lauren’s jacket of red silk shantung and black silk satin embroidered with polychrome silk and gold metallic thread, Autumn/Winter 2011/12. Head treatment by Stephen Jones. For more Chinese inspiration from the very beginning of the exhibition, click HERE
Photos: Top and Bottom Left: © Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photography: © Platon. Right: © Helen Oppenheim
CommentSpectacular Chinese Imagery at the Met – 2015
Photos: © Helen Oppenheim. Collage by helenoppenheim.com
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Gallery 213 at the superb China Through the Looking Glass exhibition has a spectacular display of fashions and unbelievably imaginative head treatments by Stephen Jones, inspired by blue and white porcelain. Yes, those are plates on the head, and other pieces of china, both in one piece and broken up. The absolutely must-see exhibition showcasing Chinese imagery of fashion, film and art opens May 7th and runs to August 16, 2015. For more, click HERE
Photos: © Helen Oppenheim
CommentChinese Art Film Fashion @ Met Museum – 2015
Photo: © Helen Oppenheim
Coming soon. China: Through The Looking Glass. Thirty-Seven photos including spectacular Stephen Jones headpieces like this, along with fab fashions from the Costume Institute’s Spring 2015 Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum which features Chinese Imagery in Art, Film and Fashion. From May 7th to August 16, 2015. The headpieces, over 120 of them, the fashions, the gorgeous exhibition by my favorite curator, Andrew Bolton, with Anna Wintour and the best of the best is a must-see. Stay tuned for more …
Photo: © Helen Oppenheim
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