Sixties Psychedelia Returns With A New Fashion Exhibit at The Museum of the City of New York

The psychedelic fashion that pervaded the Sixties is back again with an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, aptly titled “Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip.”

The exhibit chronicles the radically changing styles of the Sixties over a 14-year period from 1960 through 1973 and features designers such as Mary Quant, Pauline Trigère, Yves Saint Laurent, Geoffrey Beene and Oscar de la Renta, among others. The fashions reflect the tumultuous and “big cultural changes that took place — the rise of feminism, protests against the Vietnam War, the youth-oriented market…the invasion of the British, The Beatles and models like Twiggy,” says Donald Albrecht, curator of architecture and design and the sbow’s co-curator. “[The exhibit] tells two stories, one’s an aesthetic story and one’s a kind of a social story.”

The clothes are organized into four periods: First Lady Fashion, Youthquake, New Bohemia, and New Nonchalance. The first era launches with the demure and elegant style of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, which lasted from 1960 to 1963 and featured muted colors, sleeker designs, bouffant hairdos, pillbox hats and pearl necklaces. Clothing of this period was a “perfect balance — it’s not conservative because it has a youth and vitality to it but it is still very formulaic,” explains Phyllis Magidson, Elizabeth Farran Tozer curator of costumes and the exhibit’s co-curator.

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