BLURRED LINES: While numerous designers remain transfixed on the unisex fashion trend, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston will debut “Gender Bending Fashion” next year.
Considered to be the first major museum tackling the subject in a historic exhibition, the show will bow March 21, running through Aug. 25. The 60-plus boundary-pushing looks have been culled from Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Gucci’s Alessandro Michele, Palomo and Rei Kawakubo. For historical context, there are references to the garçonne look of the Twenties, the peacock revolution of the Sixties and other generational trends.
Three years in the works, the show was actually proposed before that, according to curator Michelle Finamore. “What was most enlightening was thinking about it as a very fluid conversation and one that is quite open-ended. What is happening now in terms of gender expression and gender identity is so dynamic and it’s changing by the day,” she said.
To accomplish that, she and her team spoke with Millenialls, the MFA’s Teen Arts Council, local college students and Boston academics (of which there are many). “Their grounding in gender identity and expression is so amazing to me, in terms of how they approach their own ideas about gender,” Finamore said.
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