The SCAD Museum of Art is a contemporary art and design museum conceived and designed expressly to enrich the educational milieu of SCAD students and professors, and to attract and delight visitors from around the world.
With the Sept. 28 opening of the Little Black Dress exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art, SCAD is excited to announce an Instagram contest that will run through Oct. 19.
Post your best Instagram shots of your favorite little black dresses (either from your closet, a store or the Little Black Dress exhibition at SCADMOA) and tag them #LBD and #SCAD.
One winner will be selected at random by the SCAD communications team and will be contacted via Instagram.
The winner will receive a signed copy of André Leon Talley’s “Little Black Dress” book.
The SCAD Museum of Art will host its first lecture of the quarter Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 5:30 p.m. The School of Building Arts Lecture Series: "Constitutional Ecology" will feature David Green, AIA, LEED AP.
We'd like to welcome all of the new and returning students moving in this weekend. Admission to the SCAD Museum of Art is always free for students, but this weekend parents will be admitted for free as well. Stop by to see all of our wonderful exhibitions.
SCADMOA presents "Little Black Dress" exhibition curated by André Leon Talley
The SCAD Museum of Art is pleased to present Little Black Dress, the premier exhibition of the Fall 2012 season. The exhibition, curated by SCAD trustee and Vogue Contributing Editor André Leon Talley, will open to the public on September 28th and is sponsored by M·A·C Cosmetics.
Little Black Dress charts the historic and contemporary significance of a singular sartorial phenomenon. Featuring approximately 80 garments from a canon of modern fashion designers, the exhibition includes contributions from veteran designers and those of the International Best-Dressed List such as Marc Jacobs, Miuccia Prada and Renee Zellweger.
The exhibition will be on display through Jan. 27, 2013 in Savannah at the SCAD Museum of Art with plans to be shown in select cities worldwide in 2013.
Exhibition highlights the strength of individualism
Selection of garments
Featured garments presented in Little Black Dress include a selection from Tom Ford's Fall/Winter 2011 collection, previously worn by Lady Gaga; a selection from Prabal Gurung's Fall 2011 collection, previously worn by Sarah Jessica Parker; a Nile Cmylo worn by and designed in collaboration with Mariah Carey; and a Stella McCartney worn by Rihanna.
Many other iconic pieces will be displayed including those from Chanel, L'Wren Scott, Givenchy, Cushnie et Ochs, Yves Saint Laurent, Isabel Toledo, among others.
Iconic designs in fashion
"SCAD is delighted to premiere Little Black Dress this fall," said SCAD President and Cofounder Paula Wallace. "As envisioned through Andre Leon Talley's seasoned curatorial eye, this landmark exhibition will introduce iconic designs in fashion to a new generation of SCAD innovators and visitors from around the world."
John Demsey, Group President Estee Lauder Companies added, "We at M·A·C Cosmetics believe passionately in educational partnerships and in supporting exhibitions such as Little Black Dress, and we have a history of doing just that. We know the students at SCAD and the public alike will truly enjoy this retrospective of the most well-known and trusted garment in any women's wardrobe. To accompany the exhibit, M·A·C has created makeup face charts to correspond with many of the pieces displayed, which will be featured in the catalogue. It is an honor to support SCAD and André for this exciting project."
Additional SCAD Museum of Art events
Taking place in conjunction with the exhibition will be a variety of public museum events and programs, including community tours and a panel discussion featuring designers, journalists, and other fashion professionals.
A full list of related programming will be announced in September 2012.
About André Leon Talley
SCAD trustee and Vogue Contributing Editor André Leon Talley has served as a mentor for SCAD fashion students for over a decade. Talley began his career assisting Diana Vreeland at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute and later wrote for Interview Magazine and Women's Wear Daily, before joining Vogue in 1983.
Little Black Dress is the second exhibition curated by Talley to take place at the SCAD Museum of Art. Talley's first exhibition at the museum, High Style, was presented for the reopening of the expanded SCAD Museum of Art in October 2011, and featured the iconic works of esteemed André Leon Talley Lifetime Award honorees. In October 2011, Talley curated Joaquín Sorolla and the Glory of Spanish Dress, a seminal exhibition at the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute in New York, analyzing the rich history of Spain's regional clothing styles through the monumental paintings of Valencian artist Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923).
About the André Leon Tally Gallery and the SCAD Museum of Art
The André Leon Talley Gallery, the only dedicated couture gallery in the southern United States, celebrates style in its myriad of forms. The gallery is housed in the new SCAD Museum of Art, the most extensive preservation project in the university's renowned history of adaptive reuse and community revitalization.
The gallery's position within the museum allows its exhibitions to engage with a diverse panorama of contemporary art exhibitions by internationally renowned artists, the prestigious Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, and other permanent holdings, including fashion photographs from 19th and 20th century masters.
About the Savannah College of Art and Design
SCAD is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution conferring bachelor's and master's degrees at distinctive locations and online to prepare talented students for professional careers. SCAD offers degrees in more than 40 areas of study, as well as minors in nearly 60 disciplines in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia; in Hong Kong; in Lacoste, France; and online through SCAD eLearning.
SCAD has more than 20,000 alumni and offers an exceptional education and unparalleled career preparation. The diverse student body, consisting of more than 11,000 students, comes from all 50 United States and nearly 100 countries worldwide. Each student is nurtured and motivated by a faculty of more than 700 professors with extraordinary academic credentials and valuable professional experience. These professors emphasize learning through individual attention in an inspiring university environment.
For more information, visit scadmoa.org. Follow the SCAD Museum of Art on Twitter @scadmoa.
About M·A·C Cosmetics
M·A·C (Make-up Art Cosmetics), a leading brand of professional cosmetics, was created in Toronto, Ontario Canada in 1984 and is part of The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc. The company's popularity has grown through a tradition of word-of-mouth endorsement from makeup artists, models, photographers and journalists around the world. M·A·C is now sold in 79 countries/territories worldwide.
Follow M·A·C on Twitter @MACcosmetics
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Find our M·A·C Senior Artists at macartiststweets.com
Visit maccosmetics.com for a M·A·C location
Media contacts
For further information about this exhibition, images, or to arrange interviews, please contact:
Elizabeth Reina-Longoria or Deirdre Maher
Blue Medium
T: +1 (212) 675-1800
Ally Hughes
Senior Public Relations Manager
Savannah College of Art and Design
T: +1 (912) 525-5250
