From the beginning of September until mid-December, BOFFO Building Fashion will feature five amazing collaborative expressions of fashion and architecture just south of Canal Street in Tribeca. BOFFO, a non-profit arts and culture organization based in New York, has organized these temporary gallery exhibitions as a way to introduce art and design to the public realm while creating opportunities for artists and designers to explore a subject matter that educates and informs the public. The first installation of Nicola Formichetti and Gage/Clemenceau Architects manifests Formichetti’s futuristic eye for fashion into a faceted, almost robotic, entity for showing his collection.
More about the exhibit after the break.
Prior to the gallery opening, to form the team, fashion designers submit their creative brief outlining the desired concept for their collaboration, and then, architects submit design proposals for the fashion designer of their choice. A jury for BOFFO narrows the list to between three-five architects, and presents those to the fashion designer for review.
