Wendell Rodricks will soon join the ranks of celebrated designers like Worth and Dior as his 30 m net panels, built on a silver lycra swimsuit has been chosen for a New York museum. Valerie Steele, director and author at the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, and curators Ariele Elia and Elizabeth Way picked out Rodricks’ gown constructed on a swimsuit, to be included in the Global Fashion Capitals exhibition that opens on June 3.
The garment was chosen after the curators saw last month’s Amazon India Fashion Week grand finale. The exhibition traces the trend of global fashion capitals Milan, london, New York, Tokyo to more recent capitals the world over.