Nearly a year after its planned unveiling, “Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion” is on view at museumatFIT. See inside:
While Robert Frost, Georgia O’Keeffe, Aretha Franklin and other creatives have immortalized the flower in verse, the Museum at FIT is doing so with its latest exhibition.
Having also spoken with visitors on Sunday at the Museum at FIT, Steele said a lot of people seem to be feeling the show emotionally, which is what she hopes for. “So much research went into it. There are just layers of things. The most obvious one is the symbolism of color — passionate red, the innocent white, girlish pink, the physical black rose and the symbolism of thorns — all of that is just a palimpsest of meanings. Rose as a fragrance.
De la Haye cited three sources of inspiration — her mother’s lifelong love of roses, Nick Knight’s photographs of roses that he posts on Instagram and a line of poetry from T.S. Eliot’s 1936 “Burnt Norton” that reads “for the roses have the look of flowers that are looked at.” After reading that line eight or nine years ago, de la Haye said she kept thinking, “I’m going to use that one day.”
Referencing the United Nations’ climate change report that was released Monday, de la Haye said the “Ravishing Rose” show is also timely in that sense. All in all, though, “Flowers are always in fashion. Roses are perennially popular. But certainly since 2010, the rose has become increasingly politicized as a motif, for example, for the anti-female genitalia mutilation campaign. Roses have been used for exploring gender identity by designers like Neil Grotzinger, of the Nihl label.
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