Mary McFadden
High Priestess of High Fashion
A Life in Haute Couture, Decor, and Design
by: Mary McFadden & Ruta Salikis






 
Mary McFadden draws her inspiration almost entirely from the artistry of ancient civilizations. She is one of the most exotic, unconventional designers in the United States today. A design archaeologist at heart, McFadden celebrates Asian, African, Middle Eastern and Ancient Greek cultures and incorporates their ideas and expressions into her couture designs. McFadden's luxurious, uninhibited creations showcase gleaming royal colors, rich fabrics and detailed embroidery. The art of ancient civilizations is literally woven into her fabrics.

"McFadden's designs convey her deep interest in distant cultures and times. In contrast to many of her colleagues, who plunder other periods for their forms with only a cursory understanding of their meanings, McFadden reflects in her designs an archeologist's fascination with the cultures and narratives expressed through art." (Harold Koda, curator of the Goddess exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art.)


Mary McFadden is a fashion designer based in New York. She launched her first collection there in 1973 and won a Coty Award in 1976, entering the Coty Hall of Fame in 1979. Since then she has received many honors and has served as President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. McFadden's collections have been shown on fashion runways in New York, Paris, Rome, Milan, and Tokyo.

Ruta Saliklis, Ph.D. is The Kate Fowler Merle-Smith Curator of Textiles at the Allentown Art Museum.

The Allentown Art Museum was established in the 1930s. In 1959, the museum received a gift of fifty-three Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculptures from Samuel H. Kress. In 1975 the museum's holdings were expanded with a large collection of textiles and another gift of works on paper.

Today the Allentown Art Museum, with its collection of over 11,000 works of art, embraces the broadest possible audience offering a tremendous variety of quality exhibitions and educational programs.

 
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ISBN: 1-59373-024-1
Publication date: June 2004
Format: hardcover, 10 1/2" x 11 1/4"
(landscape) 4-color throughout
Extent: 88pp, 100 illustrations
Category: Fashion
/Art