July 28, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
May 1–xx, 2016
LOCAL
CLASSIFIEDS
PAG E 15
FUTURE SO BRIGHT: Pierre Cardin’s futuristic features include vinyl vests, innovative sunglasses, and beret hats. Photo by Rose Adams
FASHION FORWARD
Pierre Cardin’s futuristic designs come to Brooklyn Museum
BY ROSE ADAMS
This collection is out of this
world!
A new exhibit at the Brooklyn
Museum celebrates the life
and work of a cosmic revolutionary
whose fashion designs created
the pop culture vision of an
avante-garde space age. “Future
Fashion,” which opened last
week, showcases the 70-year career
of French fashion designer
Pierre Cardin — a pioneer of
haute couture and ready-wear
outfi ts that stand out like rockets
lifting off against the sky, according
to the exhibit’s curator.
“He’s somebody who doesn’t
put a boundary on himself,” said
Matthew Yokobosky. “He worked
with refl ective materials: lights,
rhinestones. If someone walks in
the room in a Cardin, they light
up the room, like a galaxy.”
The show features 170 pieces
from the 96-year-old designer’s
studio and archive, as well as
fi lms, photos, and sketches of his
work. Selecting the items from
Cardin’s vast collections proved
to be a daunting task, said Yokobosky.
“Since Mr. Cardin’s work is
so fi nished — all of it looked perfect
when I walked into the room.
So it became about what stories I
wanted to tell,” he said.
The exhibit traces Cardin’s
development as a designer, from
his early tailoring to his haute
couture gowns to his genderbending
space gear. Each room
also showcases his impact on
popular culture, screening snippets
of “Star Trek” and the 1960s
animated show “The Jetsons”
that have clear parallels to his
Flatbush
market
turns 80
BY CHANDLER KIDD
Brooklyn has its fair share of great
museums. From the roughly 3,400-
year-old stone likeness of Egyptian
lovers Nebsen and Nebet-ta,
to an 18-year-old portrait of stoned
American rapper Snoop Dogg, the
borough’s eponymous Eastern
Parkway repository of fi ne art —
the Brooklyn Museum — boasts
an exquisite, history-spanning
collection. Elsewhere, the Brooklyn
Botanic Garden hosts a worldclass
gallery of green stuff, the
Brooklyn Transit Museum has
even older trains than the Transit
Authority, and the Wyckoff
House Museum offers a glimpse of
Brooklyn living — Dutch style.
But of all the wondrous reservoirs
of knowledge, art, history,
and vintage oddities housed behind
polished panes of Plexiglas,
there’s only one Kings County museum
that sells fruit.
“Welcome to 1939,” says Grocer
John Cortese, greeting a shopper
on her way into Golden Gate Fruit
Market.
Cortese celebrated the 80th anniversary
of his Flatbush grocery
store on, what else, but the Fourth
of July, and while it’s not your
typical museum by any standard,
there’s plenty of history on display
within this modest purveyor
of produce.
A nearly century old balance
scale hangs from the shop’s original
tin ceiling, while the pilot
light of an ancient 1918 Triplex
gas stove still burns in the back.
On the wall hangs a vintage 1960s
Sunkist banner featuring the fruit
company’s classic logo — before it
sold soft drinks — and a long-retired,
analog cash register sits operable,
but unused, having been
Continued on page 12 Continued on page 12
Vol. 8 No. 30 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNPAPER.COM
/BROOKLYNPAPER.COM