Throughout the galleries, the show’s intestinal-clenching soundtrack plays ominously overhead – as if you were not already on edge after watching the first few episodes of the second season.
Crabtree, who has created costumes for many series in her career, including The Sopranos and Westworld, is now getting well-deserved recognition with the exhibition, co-curated by SCAD FASH executive director Alexandra Sachs, director of fashion exhibitions Rafael Gomes, and Mangue Banzima, a SCAD alumnus who collaborated with Crabtree on a Handmaid’s Tale event at the Public Hotel in New York last year.
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Crabtree’s particular talent in interpreting the fashion of Atwood’s dystopian novel is all the more obvious here, given that the exhibition happens to coincide with a neighboring show at SCAD FASH dedicated to the unabashedly optimistic designs of Pierre Cardin. Cardin’s utopian visions of playful geometric romper-wear for the future (conceived in the 60s and onward) serve as a neat foil to Atwood’s dismally drab capes and gowns from the Gilead. I suppose it goes without saying which version of fantasy turned out to more closely resembles the current reality.
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