Eleven years after the loss of life of Amy Winehouse, the world’s first bikini museum is inviting followers of the legendary soul singer (and revealing two-pieces) to a particular exhibition centred on 15 Winehouse bikinis and clothes objects.
The exhibition (July 23, 2022 – March 31, 2023) – a part of what curators say is the “largest assortment of swimwear on the earth” – is entitled “Between Blues and Bikini”, the German museum introduced.
The world’s first bikini museum, by its personal account, is positioned between the cities of Frankfurt and Stuttgart, and shows a number of the most useful bikinis within the historical past of swimwear.
Last 12 months a bikini and different objects worn by the soul singer joined these of Marilyn Monroe, Scarlett Johansson and numerous different celebrities within the south-west German city that calls itself the “capital of swimwear”.
The Bikini Art Museum in Bad Rappenau says it is now the primary time it is displaying the coral-coloured two-piece by Amy Winehouse after curators purchased the bikini with putting steel rings at auctions in Beverly Hills final 12 months for US$1,250 (RM5,560).
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“The reveals vividly illustrate Amy Winehouse’s very private relationship with swimwear and construct a bridge to her life away from the stage and the highlight,” curators say.
The English singer, identified for soulful songs like “Back To Black” and “Rehab”, died in 2011 at the age of 27.
The exhibition additionally goals to shed gentle on the parable of the 27 Club, as Winehouse, who died on July 23, 2011, was amongst what’s mentioned to be a disproportionately great amount musicians to have died at the age of 27, alongside Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.
Among different main reveals at the museum are the golden two-piece by bikini inventor Louis Reard and two bikinis worn by movie stars Monroe and Brigitte Bardot.
Rather than attempting to tug in readers of the Victoria’s Secret catalogue, the so-called Bikini Art Museum is attempting to focus on the cultural historical past of swimwear and the way designs have modified from 1870 to the current.
Of round 1,200 reveals unfold over 1,500sqm of exhibition area, the museum’s spotlight might be a assortment of 12 of the unique 16 two-piece fashions developed on July 5, 1946 by bikini inventor Reard.
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Preempting the shock it could trigger, the French designer named his explosive new design after Bikini Atoll, the Marshall Islands web site the place atomic bomb testing had taken place the identical 12 months.
July 5 has since been named National Bikini Day.
The museum’s curators say the story of the bikini is not only one among style tendencies and seashore tradition, but in addition of arrests, scandals and the gradual emancipation of ladies.
Beyond fashionable swimwear, the museum additionally traces bathing tradition again to the towel-and-string method within the Middle Ages and to the showering carts of the 18th century. – dpa
