Designs by Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier and Rei Kawakubo feature in this fashion exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which aims to explore and question assumptions about gender-specific clothing.
Michelle Tolini Finamore curated the show, which includes garments by Rei Kawakuboa, Christian Siriano and Bindle & Keep (left to right)
The show, titled Gender Bending Fashion, presents clothing over the past century that has "challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress" in Western society.
Over 60 garments are on view, from haute couture to ready-to-wear pieces. Curated by Michelle Tolini Finamore, the exhibition also includes paintings, postcards, photographs and video footage.
Designs by Walter Van Beirendonck, Alejandro Gómez Palomo and Rei Kawakubo (left to right) also feature The show is divided into three sections ? Disrupt, Blur and Transcend. Each section features a mix of historical and contemporary pieces, underscoring how gender-bending fashion is not a new phenomena.
"Boundary-pushing contemporary designs appear in dialogue with historical garments, exploring moments when people have disrupted, blurred and sought to transcend concepts gendered clothing over the last century," said the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) in a project description.
Rudi Gernreich designed this 1970s wool jumpsuit. Photograph by Can Ahtam, courtesy of Textile Income Purchase Fund, 2003
The show looks at historical movements such as the g...