PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN PRESENTS FORM FOLLOWS FASHION: ISABEL AND RUBEN TOLEDO

Tuesday, March 6, 6 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design
560 7th Avenue, Auditorium, 2nd Floor

WHAT:

Parsons The New School for Design and Curator Jessica Glasscock present Isabel and Ruben Toledo, a design team who embody the broad view of fashion's possibilities with an approach that owes as much to the architect's designs as the dressmaker's art. The Toledos will discuss two decades in fashion and the question of reconciling (or, perhaps, not reconciling) an avant-garde design sensibility with the commercial demands of New York fashion.

WHEN:

Tuesday, March 6, 6 p.m.

WHERE:

Parsons The New School for Design, 560 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor

WHAT:

A full schedule is attached. Please note: productions, performers, and directors are subject to change.

TICKET INFO :

This event is free and open to the public.
For more information contact 212.229.8919 or visit www.parsons.newschool.edu/events.

Toledo Studio, established in 1984, has a body of work that encompasses clothing design, advertising campaigns, hotel promotion, and mannequin design. Toledo Studio was honored in 2005 with a National Design Award in Fashion Design by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. The National Design Museum noted �Ms. Toledo's appreciation of machinery, practicality, and comfort and Mr. Toledo's instinctive approach to art combine to create playful, incisive, and intensely surreal observations on fashion, beauty, and life.� Toledo Studio's designs have been featured at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Mode Museum in Antwerp, and in solo exhibitions at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. Isabel Toledo was recently appointed Creative Director of Anne Klein Designer Collection, and her highly anticipated first collection debuted on the runway at Fashion Week earlier this month.

The Parsons� lecture series Form Follows Fashion explores issues in fashion and design from multiple perspectives. Its title, a perversion of the classic design dictum, is intended to suggest the myriad of meanings "fashion" can encompass from commercial practice to artistic endeavor to the concept of transformation itself.