A Dream of Identity: Coco Chanel and the Myths of Fashion

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We know you're excited about November's Jean-Paul Gautier exhibit. But Coco Chanel is not to be forgotten. Rhonda Garelick, a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a writer on performance, literature, fashion, and cultural politics, will explore Chanel’s influence on fashion as well as in literary and artistic circles in Paris. The lecture is perhaps inspired by her soon-to-be-published biography of the designer, Antigone in Vogue: Coco Chanel and the Myths of Fashion, and the DMA is the perfect place for it. Five rooms of Chanel's impossibly grand Mediterranean villa, La Pausa, were re-created at the museum to house house the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection of impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern European art.