Anna Sui will be at the Met on January 14 to talk about fashion, furniture, and more (photo © Brigitte Lacombe 2009)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd St.
Friday, January 14, $25, 6:00
212-570-3949
www.metmuseum.org
Since 1991, fashion designer Anna Sui has been staging runway shows with collections influenced by everything from music, textile design, film, and comic book characters to art, British youth culture, interior decoration, and Seventeen magazine, as pointed out by Andrew Bolton in the deluxe book ANNA SUI (Chronicle, November 2010, $60). Sui’s Fall 2010 collection was inspired by furniture designer Charles Rohlfs, whose Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts handiwork is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through January 23 in the exhibition “The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs.” On Friday, January 14, Sui will be at the Met to talk about Rohlfs and her collection, along with Bolton, who is curator of the Met’s Costume Institute, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, and Joseph Cunningham, curator of the American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation. “There’s no doubt that Anna’s a little crazy,” photographer Steven Meisel writes in the introduction to the book, so be ready for anything in what should be an exciting evening.