The culture of fashion: Georgia O’Keeffe’s wardrobe for sale
I have tons of Georgia O’Keeeffe pictures on my Pinterest board as research for a project. Her personal style was just fantastic – those shirts! The hats! The kimonos! The hair!
Sotheby’s has a sale of a number of her personal artefacts coming up, including dresses, jewellery, coats and a fabulous velvet hood. What’s remarkable to me is that apparently some of these pieces were hand-sewn by Georgia O’Keeffe herself. The workmanship shown in Vogue’s detail images is beautiful (look at the black and white pleated crepe dress) and even though I guess many people sewed their own clothes back in the day, it seems novel to me in today’s everything-automated age.
A particularly notable item up for auction is a silver ‘OK’ pin. It’s a copy that O’Keeffe had made of the gold pin given to her by sculptor Alexander Calder. When O’Keeffe ‘s hair went white, she decided to have the silver dupe made as a more flattering option. Also in the sale is O’Keeffe’s recipe box (Estimate $6,000–8,000 – remember the O’Keeffe recipe book?). Read more on Sotheby’s and Vogue.
WORDS: Disneyrollergirl
IMAGES: Todd Webb; to come; Todd Webb; to come; Laura Gilpin, 1953, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, N.M; Bruce Weber
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15 February, 2020 @ 1:12 pm
Thank you for this post – a real revelation! Georgia’s gorgeous wardrobe is inspirational – and that OK pin ….!
13 March, 2020 @ 5:05 am
Thank you for posting. That photograph of Ms. O’keeffe pouring herself a cup of tea really touched me. It’s so elegant. I can say it might even be one of my favorite portraits of all time! Wow.
On another note, congratulations on having a great…. uh website?…. page?, girl, I just fell into this spot googling GO’K so I don’t know where I am. But bouncing around it, I can tell you that I like what I see. Keep it up.
13 March, 2020 @ 5:30 pm
Thank you so much!