Throughout her career, Diane von Furstenberg has been a champion of women in the fashion industry and across the world. This month, she’s taking that feminist spirit inside one of her stores. This International Women’s Day, the designer merged the fashion and art communities together by tapping artist Ashley Longshore for a pop-up exhibition paying homage to a series of female trailblazers.
The curated art collection will live in the flagship at 874 Washington Street in the Meatpacking District through May. The artwork will also be available for purchase.
The collection, which comprises 37 large-scale portraits, is intended to celebrate extraordinary women in history, including portraits of Michelle Obama, Beyoncé, Cleopatra, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lady Gaga, Barbra Streisand, Jacqueline Kennedy, Frida Kahlo, Diana Ross, Malala Yousafzai, and Oprah.
“In my initial meeting with Diane, she mentioned a couple of names to me; Hedy Lamar being one, Michelle Obama another,” Longshore tells BAZAAR.com. “Through our continued communication and late night emailing, Diane compiled an amazing list of women and I added a few of my own. Once you start researching amazing women you can just keep going … there have been so many fearless women throughout history and they all need to be celebrated! It was really hard, but time would only allow me to paint all 37 in only two weeks.”
