Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Winter 2024
Fashion through the Decades Explore different eras of the fashion
Walking Tour: Women Dressing Women at theMet
world. Begin with the most recent 2023 MET Gala celebrating the great Karl Lagerfeld. Next, jump back in time to the renowned painter of the Gilded Age, John Singer Sargent, and the fashion of that era. End by examining the world of American fashion designers like Ann Lowe and the looks of the1950s. HELENLEE is an independent art educator, conducting research and crafting personal, customizable, in-person and virtual gallery experiences for adults and children at several museums. She studied art history as an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with areas of concentration in Asian Art and Modern Art. 3 Sessions, starting Wednesday, January 10 (class meets on 1/10, 2/7, and 3/13) • 11:00am-12:00pm • Online • Course 12415 • $85 2 Sessions, starting Wednesday, February 7 (class meets on 2/7 and 3/13) • 11:00am-12:00pm • Online • Course 12442 • $57 fashion in HBO’s GildedAge television show, through vintage photographs, paintings, fashion plates, and images of antique ensembles in museum collections, examine the evolution of women’s fashion from the late nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century. Learn about the nouveau riche American fashionistas — like Alva and Alice Vanderbilt — who defined fashion of the period. Delve into the fashion trends of corsets, bustles, jewelry, and their accessories and understand how they were subsequently influenced by the women's suffrage movement. GINNY POLEMAN (see bio for “Walking Tour: New-York Historical Society”). Thursday, January 11 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Online • Course 12346 • $25 Gilded Age Fashion Drawing inspiration from the sumptuous
The Costume Institute's fall 2023 exhibition, on view through March 3, 2024, explores the creativity and artistic legacy of women fashion designers from the Met’s permanent collection, tracing a lineage of makers from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day by highlighting celebrated designers, new voices, and forgotten histories alike. Women Dressing Women features more than seventy womenswear designers from 1910 to the present, including French haute couture from Jeanne Lanvin, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Madeleine Vionnet, to American makers Ann Lowe, Claire McCardell, and Isabel Toledo, along with contemporary designs by Iris van Herpen, Rei Kawakubo, Anifa Mvuemba, and Simone Rocha. HELENLEE (see bio for “Fashion through the Decades”). Friday, February 16 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12433 • $80
Gilded Age Supermodels and Influencers
Like today, the public at the time of the Gilded Age consumed with fervor the gossip and images of the beautiful women of the time, many of whom were immortalized in New York City statues created by the era's preeminent sculptors. Through vintage images of these stunners, examine the alluring “professional beauties” who served as fodder for the press and grist for readers across the country and the world. Learn about the scandals of Evelyn Nesbit and Virginia Gateau, the tragic life of Black model Hettie Anderson who was immortalized by artist Augustus St. Gaudens, and the woman who inspired Charles Dana Gibson’s Gibson Girl. GINNY POLEMAN (see bio for “Walking Tour: New-York Historical Society”). Thursday, March 21 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Online • Course 12350 • $25
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