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Best fashion art gallery - Goldstein Museum of Design - 2015 Best of MN

May 14, 2015 at 1:46PM
Jack Edwards has spent more than 50 of his 77 years designing costumes for larger-than-life theater roles, all the while being larger than life himself. Once a familiar sight in his signature caftan in the 1970s at the Guthrie, he also worked on Broadway, making costumes for Kate Hepburn, among other stars. He designed spectacular Christmas shows for Dayton’s, used to make custom clothing for local luminaries from socialites to Prince, and has made around 200 of singer Lorie Line’s
Costumes by Jack Edwards on display at the Goldstein Gallery. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

When New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art needed another gown by the Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli for a 2012 show, it borrowed one from the Goldstein. The only special-purpose design museum in the Upper Midwest, the Goldstein has 31,000 objects that span world history from Roman glass to Danish-modern furniture. Its centerpiece is 21,000 pieces of clothing and accessories, including shoes and hats ranging from European couturier fashion to contemporary athletic wear. Gallery 241, McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Av., St. Paul; 612-624-7434; goldstein.design.umn.edu

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