Page 8 - Real Style Spring 2019

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EDITOR’S PICK
The Swarovski Leslie Pierced Earrings ($139) K combine two of this season’s biggest accessory
trends when it comes to adorning your lobes—the
hoop style and serpentine glamour. While all snake-
im Kardashian West (who has been spotted in more than one of the Mugler’s vintage pieces recently) was among those celebrating with
inspired pieces are certainly charming (Charlize Theron, Miley Cyrus, and Kourtney Kardashian have recently donned slithering necklaces), these earrings offer a subtler style. The clear pavé stones also sparkle to deliver a bit (or bite) of bling.
French designer Thierry Mugler at the just-opened retrospective exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA). More than 150 ensembles, ac- cessories, stage costumes, clips and videos, archival documents and sketches, are all on display, to every fashion lover’s delight.
Exhibit curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot, who will receive the Vanguard Award at the Canadian Arts & Fashion Awards in May, told Real Style, “Mugler is very unique and his work has rarely been seen. He re- fused most museums to do anything about him.” On pulling together the pieces that are showcased at the MMFA with Mugler’s input, Loriot described, “We both had a list of what we thought was the ‘Mugler Best Of’ per se, and our lists matched at 90%. It is always a cruel experience to edit down and narrow a selection, but it was rather exciting. He is obviously used to collaborating and is not nostalgic about his past. He was in fact interested in thinking how he would modify them or redo them now!”
With a career that includes dressing celebs and models in his figure-hugging, over-the-top designs— think Cardi B, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, David Bowie, Jerry Hall, and Kate Moss, to name a few—to even directing the video for George Michael’s song “Too Funky,” we can’t wait to see what this exhibit has in store. Adds Loriot, “I want visitors to be charmed by his work and see that fashion can be an art that goes also in the streets and that you can stage your daily life with clothes and become whoever you choose to be; total freedom.”
READ IT
corvette to snag bestie, Midge, or boy toy (literally), Ken? Well,
if a plastic tan never fades, neither does our love for Barbie and her wardrobe. In Dressing Barbie, Carol Spencer dishes on her thirty-five years working at Mattel as a Barbie fashion designer. With 100 photographs of the princess gowns, daisy- print rompers, and flirty sundresses, Barbie’s closet is known for, to behind-the-scenes insight on Spencer’s cool and accomplished career (including designing the biggest selling Barbie
of all time!), this book is one to take out of the (Barbie) box.
DRESSING BARBIE
BY CAROL SPENCER
Who doesn’t recall spending hours (well spent) in childhood debating what outfit to dress Barbie in, before she hopped in her pink
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CATCH IT NOW:
THIERRY MUGLER: COUTURISSIME
(through September 8, 2019)
PHOTO, JIMMY HAMELIN