This Designer Did What?

Calvin Klein

Do you know what famous clothing designer brand sourced handmade, vintage quilts from all over the country, through auctions, private collections, and antique shows like Brimfield, to use in creating his collection for Fall 2017 Fashion Week in NYC?

The designer is Calvin Klein. Read the article by Lili Göksenin, Raf’s Vintage Quilts at Calvin Klein Are Covetable, Political Fashion at Its Very Best, to see how Calvin Klein has used the quilts in his collection and in his displays.

How do you feel about how Calvin Klein used the quilts?

(image: GQ.com)

Comments

#18 sally roll 2017-09-29 07:58

I hope the quilts are all American made. I love it that the quilts are getting recognition and being valued and loved and treasured. Maybe people who had never thought of quilting just might begin to be interested in making a quilt. Who knows where this trend might take us.

#17 Annie Miller 2017-09-28 22:00

I have mixed emotions. I like the uses as liners. I'm worried about special vintage quilts being destroyed or lost because of this. For other quilts in bad condition, it makes sense to recycle or repurpose.

#16 Fizzz 2017-09-26 06:03

Some of the ugliest clothes I have ever seen, it's all about a new gimmick and catching a headline. A sad ending for the quilts. Where do they find the strange looking models?

#15 Dina 2017-09-25 13:41

I think this is great. It will bring recognition to handcrafted quilts in a good way, even if they sacrificed a few quilts to do it. I've got a cupboard full of old quilts and I'd gladly give any up if someone wanted to use them. That is why I make them, to be used, loved and keep people warm! Yes, high fashion can be ridiculous to us commoners, but it always trickles down in some form to the mainstream. Wouldn't it be amazing to see more people wearing the product of our art and passion-quilts?

#14 Bonnie Lippincott 2017-09-23 14:47

I have mixed emotions. On the one hand, there are "cutter" quilts, those unretrievable, battered quilts that still have some useable parts. On the other hand cutting up wonderful parts of our past . . . not so much.
I like his use of quilts for display purposes, that's fantastic. Even over embroidering some quilts is not destroying them. I would rather see him ask quilters to make him quilts for his use. That way quilters could make some money and continue on the history of quilts and their everyday usefulness.

#13 Deborah Harrison 2017-09-22 22:01

Lip service to the history and culture of quilts and then showed true feelings by destroyed what was just exalted. Appalling. I hate it. No words I can print for the creator of the desecration of the quilts. No wonder I always hate the cattle call of the runway.

#12 Marlette 2017-09-22 18:13

The NY and Paris runways have always had the most outrageous clothes one could imagine. No one ut Hollywood celebrities and those like them would wear such unattractive wardrobing.

Big names seem to get away with this stuff. Remember the paint bucket splash paintings that people paid thousands for?
It's rather sad that our quilting heritage is exploited like this. But, then again, if some these quilts were lying unused and hidden in a cupboard somewhere it might be better that the came to see the light as coat linings..

#11 Nancy Henderson 2017-09-22 16:39

Those of us that have spent time documenting, preserving, restoring and researching old quilts and their makers find this appalling! For what? Next year it will be something else........... .....Stupid!

#10 Dallas Sills 2017-09-22 16:11

At the very best, using them as linings gives me an idea on how to make a quilted jacket for myself to wear to my guild meetings. I never cared for the way a pieced outer shell looks on me and prefer a solid outer shell and a pieced inside.

#9 Patricia Crum 2017-09-22 14:29

Sad to cut up a vintage quilt to use in this way!

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