Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: On Friday
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: On Friday
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: On Friday, the RISD Museum will open an exhibit devoted to one of the most potent inventions in human history, a force so mind-bogglingly powerful that it has ― literally ― driven people to drink. The topic: the cocktail.
Featuring everything from vintage martini glasses to classic
cocktail dresses by the likes of Christian Dior and Coco Chanel, “Cocktail Culture: Ritual and Invention in American Fashion, 1920-1980” explores the role of alcohol in general, and cocktails in particular
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Needless to say, museum officials hope the show, which also boasts a wide range of cocktail-related talks, tours and other activities, will leave viewers stirred, if not shaken.
“In a sense, America and the cocktail grew up together,” says RISD fashion curator Joanne Dolan Ingersoll. “The Roaring Twenties, for example, probably wouldn’t have been nearly as roaring without the growing acceptance of social drinking on the part of both men and women. Then came Prohibition, with its bathtub gin and speakeasies, and 1940s and ’50s, with their cocktail parties and little black dresses. No matter how you look at it, the subject of cocktails and cocktail culture is incredibly rich.”
In all, the exhibit will feature some 220 objects. Among the highlights: a ##############-filling display of cocktail dresses by Dior, Halston
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And that’s not all. In a sign of how thoroughly the cocktail craze has seeped into American culture
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“As a social phenomenon, cocktails are very democratic,” Ingersoll observes. “In fact, the whole idea of mixing is very important in the history of cocktails and cocktail culture. Not only do you mix drinks, but you also mix people of different ######es, races and social classes.”
To ensure that viewers don’t absorb too much cocktail lore too quickly, the show will be divided into smaller sections. A section called “Icons,” for example
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Another section, “Urban Nightlife
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One thing you might not expect to find in “Cocktail Culture” is a section devoted to travel. But Ingersoll says tippling and traveling go together like, well, gin and vermouth.
“When we started doing our research, one of the things we discovered was that travel and drinking were very closely related,” she explains. “During Prohibition, people traveled to find safe places to drink. That led to the idea that drinking and travel were both part of the so-called ‘good life.’?”
While the idea for “Cocktail Culture” originated with Ingersoll
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cheap Formal dresses, also contributed to the exhibit. So did Nader Tehrani, a RISD-trained artist and architect who was brought in to design the exhibit displays and platforms.
In a telephone interview, Tehrani said that his biggest challenge was trying to give the show a sense of “flow.”
“In most museum shows, you have a clear sense of chronology,” he said. “You go from Point A to Point B and so on. But this exhibit is different. It’s organized according to themes like “Travel” or “Movies,” so the challenge was to create a sense of procession through the exhibit.”
Irvin, meanwhile, explained the presence of European designers such as Christian Dior and Hubert de Givenchy in a show devoted to American cocktail culture.
“American culture was a major influence in Europe, especially after World War II,” she said. “Dior, in particular, was fascinated by the freedom and energy that he found in things like American movies and music. He was also one of the first Paris designers to open a boutique in the U.S.”
Ironically, Ingersoll had the idea for “Cocktail Culture” more than decade ago while working at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. That was long before “Mad Men
long prom dresses,” the hit HBO series about a group of bed-hopping advertising executives, revived interest in the three-martini lunch and the multi-bourbon dinner. It also came before the recent cocktail revival among hip young urbanites.
Now, museum officials are taking full advantage of the cocktail’s comeback. In addition to the exhibit, they are publishing a 190-page catalog with essays by Ingersoll and other scholars. They’re also organizing a long list of cocktail-themed events and activities, including ############## talks on barware design (April 17) and party fashions (May 13). There’s also a film series (April 21 to July 21) and a panel discussion (May 19) featuring Daniel Okrent, author of “Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition”. (For more information on events, call 401-454-6500 or visit
http://www.risdmuseum.org.
“Cocktail Culture: Ritual and Invention in American Fashion, 1920-1980” runs through July 31 at the RISD Museum
cheap prom dresses, 224 Benefit St., in Providence.
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