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Knit With Peril


Knit with Peril
Total coincidence-I had no idea," fashion designer Liz Collins says of Safe-which happens to be the name of both her knit-wear exhibition, at the Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA) through January 29, and the almost simultaneous MoMA design block-buster. In Collins's show a frock could protect a pedestrian from nighttime traffic, while other works "allow us to think about the emotional responses we have to clothing's multiple meanings," curator Dana Self says.

Enthralled by the futuristic designs Collins rendered from a manually operated knitting machine, a more than century-old technology, Self selected the designer's work as the first fiber offering in the museum's "Design Lab" series, which be-gan in 2003. "Her use of knitting-often thought of as too grandmotherly-as a vehicle for sensual and body-conscious clothing is smart," she says. Given carte blanche to assemble the show, Collins launched upon "safe" as the theme for selecting three existing garments and creating 13 new works.



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