CHIC Chicago

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Gen Art is proud to invite Gen Art Platinum & Higher Level Members to Chic Chicago,Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum. This exhibitionprovides the rare opportunity to see more than 50 of the greatestcouture treasures from the Museum’s collection.
The exhibition willfeature Gilded Age gowns by Worth and Pingat to modern masterpieces byChanel and Versace.The exhibition is a testimony to Chicago women of style whosupported innovative fashion designers in the hope of claiming Chicagoas chic. Fashion, they believed, was the most dramatic way tore-imagine Chicago as a sophisticated and cultured city.
By purchasingand wearing couture fashion, these women aspired to overcome the city’simage as a gritty, industrial, working-class metropolis and itsnegative reputations as hog butcher to the world, gangland, and thesecond city. The exhibition, running through July 26, 2009, displayssome of the most significant pieces that helped shape fashion history.
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