We chatted with curator Joy Bivins about how new exhibit Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair all came together, from the Ebony Fashion Fair’s cultural significance, to the importance of the exhibition’s “risky” dark-skinned mannequins.
Let’s start with this deliciously descriptive–and dishy–sentence in Cathy Horyn’s recent column in the New York Times about the selection process for Eleanor Lambert’s legendary Best Dressed List. “I sensed that…names were dropped into the ring basically so they could be swatted away.” Horyn was referring to a meeting between Lambert, founder of the International Read more →
