designer: Huipil and skirt
name of the object: Museum Trust
origin: Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca Mexico
season/year: before 1954
- I first noticed the headband. It reminds me of roses.
- It is wearable. This outfit can be wear from head to the bottom, it has a head accessory, a top, and a skirt.
- I think Frida would have to wear this outfit to some of her major events.
- This outfit is a complex combination of Frida’s Mexican-ness and political beliefs and was also a strategy against prying in response to her disabilities. The square cut tunic, the huipil, did not ride up when she was seated and provided enough room to comfortably accommodate medical corsets. The dress provides a solution for Frida to express herself.
- This does transform the notion of beauty in our time since itself is a very complex combination of political beliefs and Frida’s Mexican-ness.
- Cotton was used when they put together.
- This item is a combination of Frida’s Mexican-ness and her political belief, and also a strategy against prying in response to her disabilities.
designer/creator: Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo
name of the object: Lace headdress and skirt
origin: Juchitan Oaxaca, Mexico
season/year: before 1954
- I first notice the lace of this object. It reminds me of a wedding dress.
- It is wearable, it is worn as a dress with a veil.
- The garment is worn during Mass and on other ceremonial occasions, it could also be worn for the church, weddings, and processions.
- This transforms the notion of beauty at the time because when this created there wasn’t anything like this.
- This garment looks like an old fashion wedding dress, it gives us the inspiration of how wedding dress looks like in the past.
- machine-made lace, cotton, and ribbon were used when they put together.
- This garment says about Frida that she is a faithful lady.
designer:
name of the object: Huipil (Tunic)
origin: Oaxaca, Mexico
season/year: before 1954
- I first noticed the color choice of this outfit, it reminds me of Gina and Vietnam.
- It is wearable. It is worn on the body on the top to the bottom.
- This garment is to dress as a Tehuana, she affirmed her identification with Mexico and its artistic legacies.
- I don’t think this transform notion of beauty at this time, it looks like a regular Mexico outfit.
- It could since this is more like a traditional garment, it does inspire modern fashion little.
- Semisynthetic and cotton with the machine were used when they make this item.
- This garment says about Frida’s identity.
I was told not to take photos when I was trying to:(
fashion object: a necklace of Obsidian Blades
date: 1492(blades)
creator: assembled by Frida Kahlo
material: Obsidian, cotton, and metal
art object: fruit of the earth
date: 1938
artist: Frida Kahlo
medium: oil on Masonite
The art piece reminds me of the necklace because the painting itself has a glory background; it reminds me of the shinniness on blades.
