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Location | Museum of Arts and Design, New York |
Photographer | Alex and Lee, 1974. Photo by Jerry Wainwright for Native Funk and Flash, Courtesy of the Museum of Arts and Design |
Counter-Couture: Handmade Fashion in an American Counterculture celebrates the handmade fashion and style of the 1960s and 1970s. Often referred to as the hippie movement, the Counterculture swept away the conformism of the previous decade and professed an alternative lifestyle whose effects still resonate today. Moved by the rejection of a materialist and consumerist interpretation of the American Dream, Counterculture youths embraced ideals...