FROM THE SIDEWALK TO THE MUSEUM...

The Brooklyn Museum was built in 1985. The Beaux-Arts building, is a steel frame structure build to the standars of classical masonry, designed by the famous architectural firm of KcKim, Mead, and White a prominent American architectural firm which thrived at the turn of the twentieth century, and built by the Carlin construction Company.

Located on the 200 Eastern Parkway,  the Brooklyn Museum, which opened in 1987 , is the New York City's second largest in physical size and  is well know for its expensive collections of Egyptian and African art, in addition to 17th-18th, and 20th- century paintings, sculture and decorative arts throughout a wide range of schools, with roughly 1.5 million works.

Since its launch in Montreal in 2011, "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk," curated by Thierry-Maxime Loriot, has traveled the world. And now it is at the Brooklyn Museum, where you have the opportunity to see the exhibition, which includes a new section devoted to Jean Paul Gaultier's muses scenes. 

• Paolo Roversi (Italian, b. 1947). Tanel Bedrossiantz, 1992. Digital print, 15 x 12 in. (38.3 x 30.8 cm). Jean Paul Gaultier’s “Barbès” women’s ready-to-wear fall-winter collection of 1984–85. © Paolo Roversi

If you are in New York, do not miss the opportunity to see the amazing exhibition with digital mannequins, and where the creativity and the irreverent style of this French designer is the protagonist. The exhibition will be until through February 23, 2014.