Examining the topic of historicism from many theoretical angles in relationship to her 2004 exhibition, Malign Muses: When Fashion Turns Back, curator Judith Clark discussed the ways in which the past haunts the present: "It is about quotation, about history as muse, and the problematic relationship with repetition."
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Dries Van Noten’s inspiration for his Fall 2000 collection was the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of London intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s. However, the voluminous collar of the suit reads as an updated version of the shawl collars Dior favored on his suits during the 1950s.
Dries van Noten
Suit
Black and white wool, Spandex, black nylon
Fall 2000, Belgium
The Museum at FIT, 2004.29.1
Gift of Dorothy Lieberman
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