LACMA announces designers for the Wear LACMA Fall 2016 Collection

LACMA announces designers for the Wear LACMA Fall 2016 Collection
Oliver Peoples, Pam & Gela, and Lisa Eisner to create new fashion items inspired by LACMA’s permanent collection

(Los Angeles, CA—September 20, 2016) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announces its Fall 2016 Wear LACMA Collection featuring one-of-a-kind fashion items by Oliver Peoples, Pam & Gela, and Lisa Eisner. Wear LACMA is an art and fashion collaboration between the museum and Los Angeles’s top designers that celebrates the museum’s permanent collection. With each Wear LACMA collection, designers explore the museum’s holdings and select an artwork—in any medium or period in art history—and create a new fashion item inspired by this work of art. The Fall 2016 collection—launching this November—includes an original pair of Oliver Peoples sunglasses inspired by Chris Burden’s iconic sculpture Urban Light (2008); fashion items by Pam & Gela incorporating crane and blossom motifs from 19th and 20th century Japanese ceramics; and fine jewelry by Lisa Eisner inspired by Jay DeFeo’s painting The Jewel (1959). Wear LACMA is an initiative of the museum’s Director’s Circle, a fundraising group that supports the museum’s programs and exhibitions.