you should know

FRIDA
KAHLO-
& you probably do.

but did you know right now there is an arresting exhibit of the artist's wardrobe in her home in Mexico City?

Frida Kahlo died at the age of 47-leaving us with countless haunting self portriats-while considered disturbing by many-capture her in time and  in today's introspective landscape seem all the more relevant as a mirror of ourselves.

"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you."

Her "style" was necessity-a victim of polio-Frida wore corsets and long skirts to hide the ravages to her  body from that disease and as a teenager a near death crash that would set off a lifetime of surgeries and bed rest.

"My painting carries with it the message of pain."

from the exhibit

all images above are of Kahlo's wardrobe

 

Jean Paul Gaultier (below) and Rei Kawakubo have been  inspired by the artist and some of their pieces are included in the exhibition-

Who will be inspired next? There is not doubt Kahlo's sartorial choices will appear on runways in the next seasons as homage to a women who knew that being fashionable was often accompanied by self torture-Kahlo's was not from desire but need.

Read more about Her house-now a museum and the exhibition is being held there.

Read more about the VOGUE cover  here

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