Quick Philly Fashion Round-Up

October has definitely been a fashion and design month in Philadelphia.

While the darkest aspects of fashion were analyses during the Fashion in Fiction conference, architecture was explored at DesignPhiladelphia.

The more commercial The Philadelphia Collection, a 10 day-long celebration of fashion, kicked off instead at the end of September.

Some events connected with it like the exhibition "From Mad Men to Mod Women: Fashion in the 1960s" are actually still going.

You'll find this exhibition (until tomorrow) on the 2nd Floor of the Art Hallway Gallery at the local Free Library (NB the library Art Department also seems to have an interesting stock of books about fashion and design and, around the corner from it, you'll find a little second hand bookshop that also sells old books discarded from the library, so you'll have good chances of finding some interesting volumes there for very little).

Moving from the popular television show, this small but well-organised exhibition explores through Saturday Evening Post covers, images from the Library’s collection and magazine fashion spreads, the changes occurred throughout the 60s in culture, fashion and society.

During The Philadelphia Collection event there was also the launch of the product design marketing agency called The Fashion Lab.

The latter is also the first full service fashion development industry training program for low income students.

Talking about students here are some designs that were exhibited in the windows at The Gallery at Market East.

All the designs were made by the local Art Institute students using recycled materials.

I'm not too sure about where the materials came from, but judging from the prints (in some cases calling to mind a sort of classic vintage music hall aesthetic) and the fabric consistency, some of them must have been flags/advertsing banners.

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