I MOVED!

Saturday, I found my way to MOVE!, a MoMA PS1 presented event meant to showcase fashion and all things art through collaborations between clothing designers and artists.

At the suggestion of my friend, Frank, who was a Robert Geller clad dancer in one of the installations, I gladly took the train to Long Island City, paid the $10 admission fee, and slapped on the bright pink sticker the guards used to decipher who the paying customers were. Here are some photos from my afternoon.

The interesting stairwell really foreSHADOWed the truly entertaining afternoon I was about to have.

The Robert Geller/Ryan McNamara collaboration You Can Dance. See Robert pointing in the background admiring the students and teachers he'd outfitted.

The Terence Koh/Italo Zucchelli collaboration, Untitled (2010).

The Rob Pruitt/Marc Jacobs Collaboration, Looks. After being forced to down a blue-walled runway by two women wearing headsets and holding clip boards, they showed me into the next room where I was able to watch my sassy self strut down the virtual runway of my dreams... Finally, years of practice in the mirror paid off!

The Cheryl/American Apparel Collaboration, The Makeover You Never Knew You Wanted. I stood back and watched as ordinary citizens were transformed into their inner CHERYL with makeovers consisting glitter, hair extensions, shoulder pads, fake blood or any combination of the bunch.

But, sigh, I couldn't stay the whole afternoon. Yet, walking down the street back to the train stop I passed by a sign all marked up with graffiti, with old labels peeling off, and with the latest addition of those pink stickers everyone was forced to wear. The event had put me in one of those seeing-art-in-everything moments and I found myself taking a photo of what I had just seen, which looking back seems a little lame, but nonetheless, I realized that MOVE! had, in fact, reminded me stop, smell the roses and be "moved" by art that happens every day.