must-see

I'm still kicking myself for missing out on the YSL exhibit at San Francisco's de Young. But I have found an opportunity for another amazing fashion exhibit.

Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica is featuring "the Century in Fashion" until March, and it is on my to-do list.
Photographs from as early as the 20s taken by photographers such as the late Irving Penn, with subjects like Coco Chanel will be on display.




Another exhibit is "Lillian Bassman: Women". I'd never heard of her before, but I've seen her images before. She captured the elegance and pure beauty of the 40s and 50s so well. (Gia Caneli writes an excellent post about her work).

Lillian Bassman recognized the loss of elegance that came with the late 60s and 70s and became so disenchanted that she almost destroyed all of her life's work of fashion photographs. What a gift to be able to see some that were salvaged years later!