Here Are the Brides!

Posted by Mary Murray on June 17th 2011 | 0 Comments

Tags: Wedded Perfection, Museum

After more than a year of planning and weeks of installation, Wedded Perfection opens Sunday, June 19!

Wedding Dress of Mary Dayton Richards (1842-1921), cotton, 1869,
collection of Cincinnati Art Museum

 

Wedding dress of Frances Amelia White Gates (1859-1926), 1887, Cincinnati Art Museum

Join us in the Museum of Art Auditorium at 2 p.m. for exhibition curator Cynthia Amneus’ presentation, “Married in the Kitchen: A Brief History of Women and Their Wedding Gowns.”

Zac Posen (b. 1980), Wedding dress, 2004, silk, lent by Alexandra Posen

Ms. Amneus is Curator of Fashion Arts and Textiles at the Cincinnati Museum of Art.

Wedding Dress, 1887, silk and linen,
George Henry Lee & Co., Liverpool England

After the lecture, adjourn to the Edward Root Sculpture Court enjoy some refreshments and meet Ms. Amneus, who will sign copies of the Wedded Perfection catalogue.

Paco Rabanne (born 1934), Wedding dress,
1967-68, leather and aluminum