At MODA: Inspiring Beauty

Givenchy Spring/Summer 1974

Bill Blass Fall/Winter 1996-97


Patrick Kelly Fall/Winter 1986

More than a display of haute couture, the Ebony Fashion Fair broke through social barriers to bring empowering glamour to mid-twentieth century African Americans. The travelling show from the pages of Ebony Magazine was the work of Eunice Johnson. Learn more about her quest from this NPR story and visit MODA, not only for the fashions, but the story they tell.
through January 4 at MODA, 1315 Peachtree Street

At MODA: Design For Social Impact

While MODA's trio of MakerBot 3-D printers continue to dazzle us with visions of a diy future, a new exhibition, Design For Social Impact, celebrates solutions to more fundamental, humanitarian design challenges. Nearby in Clarkston, Georgia, less waste and more jobs are the results of Billboard Bags, an initiative to employ refugees in the production of chic carryall bags made from upcycled billboards and coffee sacks. In distant Johannesburg, South Africa, the quest for an improved method of water storage and transportation became the Hippo Roller.
through August 3 at MODA

At MODA

What do folding rulers, corkscrews and teabags have in common? All were chosen by the Vitra Museum in Germany for the travelling exhibition, Hidden Heroes. The Genius of Everyday Things, on view at MODA through May 11. While it is worth knowing that graphite pencils democratized writing or that the post-it note owes its success to the failure of a glue, Executive Director Laura Flusche further noted that we poised on the threshold of a new way of obtaining things. The museum's trio of MakerBot 3-D printers stole the show at Friday's media preview. Yes, they produced that lacy tiara, the articulated link bracelet and another one that flexed; all this from a nascent technology.