Virtual Fashion Fusion | Antiquities to Modern Art
Left to right, top to bottom (details): Egyptian, Coffin of Pedi-Osiris / Alexei von Jawlensky, Portrait of a Woman / attributed to the Naples Painter, Red-Figure Column Krater with Battle Scene / Odilon Redon, Two Young Girls among Flowers / Michele Tosini, Saint Mary Magdalene / Vasily Kandinsky, Sketch 160A
Odilon Redon, Two Young Girls among Flowers, 1912, oil on canvas, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, John A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, gift of Audrey Jones Beck.
Egyptian, Coffin of Pedi-Osiris, 305 BC–AD 30, carved and painted wood and gold, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund.
Michele Tosini, Saint Mary Magdalene, 1560s, oil on wood, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Samuel H. Kress Collection.
2018 Fashion Fusion | Shanda Phillips, Black Rose
Photography by Jorge Luna / Courtesy of Houston Community College
2018 Fashion Fusion | David Julian Valdez, Iconic Ingénue
Photography by Jorge Luna / Courtesy of Houston Community College
Fashion Fusion is back, virtual, and fabulous as ever! The MFAH and Houston Community College team up for an innovative, reimagined fashion event this year. “Fashion Fusion VI: Antiquities to Modern Art” is inspired by works of art in the Museum’s collections.
Via Facebook Live / Thursday, May 6, 2021
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Fashion Fusion, an annual MFAH/HCC collaboration, challenges student designers from the award-winning HCC fashion program to create original, contemporary designs. Enjoy behind-the-scenes looks into the designers’ studios, and watch the runway fashion show filmed in the MFAH galleries. Then vote for your favorite creative fashions!
James Anno, associate curator of European art, is one of the judges. He shares insight on a work of art highlighted this year (image #2 in the slideshow):
“Odilon Redon was a French Symbolist painter, printmaker, and draftsman best known for the dreamlike paintings he created in the early 20th century. Redon was influenced by Japanese art, and he was inspired by nature. In Two Young Girls among Flowers, Redon depicts two girls in an abstract setting amidst flowers, creating an evocative vision of nature.”
Creative Director and Fashion Show Producer is Tamara Klosz Bonar.
Models by the Shells’ Neal Hamil Agency and Page Parkes Texas.
Hair by Volume Social Club.
Makeup by Brandon Bentley.
Houston Community College Fashion Design Program.
Houston Community College Fashion Merchandising Program.
Camera, Edition and Photography by Houston Community College Communications, HCC TVFashion Fusion.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive endowment funds provided by Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Tate; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Virginia and Ira Jackson; the Favrot Fund; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of John Wynne; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.