FASHION ICONS GIVE HEAD ON TOP OF MOUNT RUSHMORE
Thursday, November 5, 2009 
“Mt. Blushmore,” by Item Idem.Check out this fashion exhibition “Dysfashional,” which opened this week at the Passage du Désir in Paris. The show’s curators, Luca Marchetti and Emanuele Quinz, have tapped designers like Raf Simons, Hussein Chalayan and Gaspard Yurkievich to contribute, the pair has chosen not to exhibit clothing, preferring instead to focus on the ideas and spectacle that surround fashion.
Here is just one of the many art pieces by Item Idem that is featured in the exhibit.
“Mt. Blushmore,” is an L.E.D. installation featuring Karl Lagerfeld, Donatella Versace, Anna Wintour and John Galliano in place of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln. Idem says that the work suggested itself on a recent trip to the Optics Valley in Wuhan, China. “Pop culture and tourist gimmickry are two of my personal obsessions and have pushed me to explore new mediums like laser crystal engraving,” he says. “’Mt. Blushmore’ is conceived as a three-dimensional postcard, a souvenir blown up to monumental size.” The better to showcase monumental egos.
NeverWood High would totally have this art installation hanging in the History classrooms!
Dysfashional” runs through Nov. 29. It will then travel to the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin next year.
