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Alexander Cavaluzzo

Alexander Cavaluzzo is a Pop Poet, Cultural Critic and Sartorial Scholar. He received his BS in Art History from FIT and his MA in Arts Politics at NYU. His interests focus on the intersection of fashion, art and pop culture.

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Camp at the Met Museum: A Serious Fail at “Failed Seriousness”

by Alexander Cavaluzzo May 17, 2019May 16, 2019

The problem with the exhibition is that it’s simultaneously too self-aware and too clueless to capture the essence of camp.

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Viktor & Rolf Make Memeified Couture for a New Generation

by Alexander Cavaluzzo January 25, 2019January 25, 2019

Instead of designing couture that the masses would memeify, Viktor & Rolf designed memes that just happen to be couture.

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Bill Cunningham’s Posthumous Memoir Isn’t Quite What You’d Expect

by Alexander Cavaluzzo January 11, 2019

In the beloved fashion photographer’s posthumous memoir, we get a peek into his origin story.

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God Loves Versace in Met Museum’s Fashion and Catholicism Exhibit

by Alexander Cavaluzzo July 3, 2018July 3, 2018

The museum yokes the spectacle of fashion and the spectacle of Catholicism in its largest costume exhibition to date.

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Displaying Kaepernick’s Jersey, MoMA Threads Together Art, Fashion, and Politics

by Alexander Cavaluzzo October 10, 2017

Of the iconic fashion pieces in MoMA’s exhibition Items: is Fashion Modern? no item may be more important or salient to our contemporary politics than Colin Kaepernick’s jersey.

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The Outlandish and Beautiful Juxtapositions of Rei Kawakubo

by Alexander Cavaluzzo June 5, 2017July 12, 2017

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute dedicates its second solo show of a living designer to Rei Kawakubo, who started her daring clothing label Comme des Garçons in 1973.

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How Artists and Scientists Have Contended with the Cosmos Across the Centuries

by Alexander Cavaluzzo December 15, 2016

The Universe and Art at the Mori Art Museum explores, with science and art, how humanity has wrestled with its place in the cosmos throughout time.

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Musing Over a Memoir by a Chronicler of the Downtown New York Art Scene

by Alexander Cavaluzzo October 14, 2016October 14, 2016

Tama Janowitz has emerged from seclusion to debut her first memoir, Scream.

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The Whimsy and Wit of Isaac Mizrahi

by Alexander Cavaluzzo August 1, 2016August 1, 2016

Oversized frog heads; a thin, silk faille gown swathed in a cotton candy-colored parka; a cacophony of plaids, polka dots, chevrons, furs, sequins, feathers, tribal prints, and religious iconography. This is the world of Isaac Mizrahi, on view at the Jewish Museum.

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The Evolution of Dressmaking, from Hand- to Machine-Made

by Alexander Cavaluzzo June 27, 2016June 28, 2016

A clever way of telling if a piece of clothing is a knock-off is to look at the stitching: if it’s crooked, it’s probably been hastily assembled in some sweatshop; if it’s straight, it’s been meticulously formed with the utmost sensitivity to detail in an atelier.

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The Fairy-Tale World of Fashion

by Alexander Cavaluzzo April 5, 2016April 6, 2016

Whether it’s the click of silver slippers or a gown of gold descending from the branches of a tree, fashion and clothing have a unique presence in fairy tales.

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Beautiful Surprises and Surprising Depth at Cooper Hewitt’s Design Triennial

by Alexander Cavaluzzo March 11, 2016March 14, 2016

If beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, the curators of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum faced a daunting task when they chose beauty for the latest design triennial’s theme.

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