(l) Madeleine Vionnet, Ernesto Thayaht, Evening dress, ca. 1922–1928. Silk crepe with opalescent glass bead embroidery, 104.1 x 45.7 cm (41 x 18 in.) dress; 91.4 x 45.7 cm (36 x 18 in.) slip. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, museum purchase, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. Wilsey 2001.65a–b. Photograph by Randy Dodson (r) Tamara de Lempicka wearing a gown by Marcel Rochas (detail), 1933. Courtesy of the Tamara de Lempicka Estate. Photograph by Madame d’Ora (Dora Kallmus)
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Listen in as Tamara de Lempicka exhibition curator Furio Rinaldi and curator in charge of costume and textile arts Laura L. Camerlengo discuss how Lempicka interpreted and responded to changes in European women’s fashion during the interwar era (1918–1939). Through her iconic paintings, Lempicka captured the changes and plurality of fashions available to women in the 1920s and 1930s. By wearing creations by contemporary designers like Jean Patou and Marcel Rochas, she also used fashion as a way to carefully craft her own artistic and public identity.
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A Conversation on Tamara de Lempicka + Fashion
About the speakers
Furio Rinaldi is curator in charge of drawings, prints, and photographs at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where he has organized the exhibitions Botticelli Drawings (2023–2024) and Color into Line: Pastels from the Renaissance to the Present (2021–2022). In 2022, he was appointed the David and Julie Tobey Fellow at I Tatti — The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
Laura L. Camerlengo is curator in charge of costume and textile arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Since 2010, she has organized, co-organized, and presented numerous costume and textiles exhibitions for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with a focus on sharing the stories of women and artists of color. Her publications include The Miser’s Purse (2013), Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love (co-authored with Dilys E. Blum, 2021), and Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style (2024).
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Free program. First come, first served. Seating is limited and unassigned. Doors open 30 minutes before the start of the program.
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