This book pays homage to an iconic fashion duo, Ossie Clark and
Celia Birtwell, two English creatives whose short but very intense
artistic and personal partnership gave rise to an unmistakable
style that left its mark in London during the period between Mary
Quant’s miniskirt and the subversive punk movement of Malcolm
MacLaren and Vivienne Westwood, from 1965 to 1974. Ossie and Celia
is the story of a special alchemy, one of the first artistic
couples in which a designer and a fabric designer worked together
to complete each other in total harmony, up until their separation
in 1973. Celia created wonderful prints inspired by nature and the
different artistic currents that Ossie, with his skill in cutting
and modelling, transformed into sensual and feminine clothes. This
also thanks to the lightness of the fabrics such as crepes, silks
and chiffons that conquered the international jet-set and the music
scene of the time. From Brigitte Bardot to Liz Taylor, up to
Verushka, everyone was fascinated by their fashion. Mick Jagger,
Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix, Marianne Faithfull,
Anita Pallenberg, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Bianca Jagger and
Marisa Berenson are just some of the people that Ossie Clark
dressed. Starting with a first important nucleus of clothes from
the archive of Massimo Cantini Parrini, then enriched with further
loans from the American collection of Lauren Lepire and from the
London archives of the Clark family and Celia Birtwell herself, the
exhibition recounts the context and evolution of the two artists
with clothes, fabrics, unseen sketches, videos, photos and vintage
editorials. Text in English and Italian.
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