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Location | Museum of Arts and Design, New York |
Photographer | Neshama Franklin, Eagle Cape made for Gino Sky Poet-Performer, 1972 Fabric Courtesy of Gino Sky Photo Credit: Rex Rystedt Courtesy of the Bellevue A |
Counter-Couture: Handmade Fashion in an American Counterculture celebrates the handmade fashion and style of the 1960s and 1970s. Often referred to as the hippie movement, the Counterculture swept away the conformism of the previous decade and professed an alternative lifestyle whose effects still resonate today. Moved by the rejection of a materialist and consumerist interpretation of the American Dream, Counterculture youths embraced ideals...