What will we be wearing in 5, 50, or 500 years? It’s all on view at MoMA.
Many of the 111 pieces displayed at MoMA’s new Items: Is Fashion Modern? exhibition will be familiar. There are leather biker jackets and Levi’s 501 jeans. There’s Colin Kaepernick’s 49ers jersey, rubber flip-flops, and even a pair of tighty-whities. But the show also includes a handful of entirely new designs that curator Paola Antonelli commissioned specifically for the show, and many tease the near future of fashion. You might not think to look in a museum for what we’ll wear in the future–but that’s exactly what’s on view.