Successful opening of SCAD Atlanta museum

This week, SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) annouced the successful opening of SCAD FASH, the first museum dedicated to fashion and film at SCAD Atlanta. Approximately 2,000 visitors attended the Public Grand Opening last weekend.

SCAD FASH celebrates fashion as a universal language, garments as important conduits of identity, and film as an immersive and memorable medium. This new museum exists at the international intersection of study, exhibition, and discourse, focused precisely on fashion and film.

The inaugural exhibition, Oscar de la Renta, celebrates the house of the late Oscar de la Renta and features garments spanning 50 years from the mid-1960s through the present, including gowns on loan from former first lady Laura Bush and dresses worn by Taylor Swift and Oprah Winfrey, in addition to select garments by Oscar de la Renta’s new creative director Peter Copping. The exhibition also includes the film “Ovation for Oscar,” which premiered at the Marché du Film at the Cannes Film Festival. Created by SCAD alumni and students, the short documentary provides an intimate look at the making of a major museum exhibition honoring the designer, artist and cultural icon.

Future programming at SCAD FASH will include acclaimed exhibitions such as i feel ya: SCAD + André 3000 Benjamin, and Art x Fashion, an exploration of reciprocal influences between art and design. Programming is overseen by Laurie Ann Farrell, executive director of SCAD museums and exhibitions.

Source: SCAD