This exhibition explores the common visual and intellectual principles that underlie both fashion and architecture. MOCA
SKIN + BONES: PARALLEL PRACTICES IN FASHION AND ARCHITECTURE
11.19.06 - 03.05.07

This exhibition explores the common visual and intellectual principles that underlie both fashion and architecture. Both disciplines start with the human body and expand on ideas of space and movement, serving as outward expressions of personal, political, and cultural identity. Architects and fashion designers produce environments defined through spatial awareness—the structures they create are based on volume, function, proportion, and material. Presenting the work of international fashion designers and architects, the exhibition examines themes such as shelter, identity, tectonic strategies, creative process, and parallel stylistic tendencies including deconstruction and minimalism. The exhibition is curated by MOCA Curator of Architecture & Design Brooke Hodge and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture is made possible by generous support from The Ron Burkle Endowment for Architecture and Design Programs; the Sydney Irmas Exhibition Endowment; Infiniti; The MOCA Architecture & Design Council; Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam; Étant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art; Dwell; Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown; Westfall Commercial Furniture, Inc.; The Japan Foundation; and the Consulate General of the Netherlands.

The publication is made possible through a generous grant from Carol and Jacqueline Appel.

89.9 KCRW is the Official Media Sponsor of MOCA.

Generous in-kind support is provided by Ralph Pucci International.

Additional in-kind support is provided by Yellow Book USA and Blair Graphics.