Dress Local: Applied Mapping of the Garment District

Off-site exhibition! "Dress Local: Applied Mapping of the Garment District" CCCPArch, The Fashion Center Business Improvement District and Studio-X present a mixed-media, site-specific exhibition about the Garment District made with materials from the Garment District in the Garment District. Opening Thursday, May 13, 2010, 6:30pm On display May 13-June 15, 2010 The Fashion Center Space for Public Art 215 W. 38th Street, New York, NY 10018 By Sarah Cloonan, Pollyanna Rhee, Federica Soletta and Tong Tong (CCCPArch, Columbia University) Four graduate students from the one-year-old Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (CCCPArch) program at Columbia University present a storefront-window exhibition, "Dress Local: Applied Mapping of the Garment District." The project uses an applied mapping of fabric, pattern and notions an expression of the urban mosaic of the neighborhood and the New York fashion industry as well as a simple sheath dress made entirely from goods found with within the Garment District to highlight the vibrant textural qualities of the neighborhood. Thereby, "Dress Local" examines these qualities at the macro- and micro-scale simultaneously. The team has created a blog to document their research and installation process: http://dresslocal.tumblr.com/ Sponsored by CCCPArch, The Fashion Center Business Improvement District, and Studio-X. [Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.]