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Teacher's Alzheimer's Collection Dazzles Met Gala
5 May
Summary
- An art teacher's graduate collection inspired by Alzheimer's disease was selected for a Met Gala exhibition.
- The collection features knotted materials and red hues, representing brain tangles and active areas.
- Her work will be displayed alongside designs spanning 5,000 years at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Nadia Pinkney, an art and fashion teacher from Midlothian, experienced profound disbelief when her graduate collection, inspired by Alzheimer's disease, was selected for display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her 'Remember Me Knot' collection, created for her fashion degree in 2016, draws deeply from her family's experience with the disease.
The collection incorporates knotted materials and the color red to visually represent the tangling of neurons and active brain areas seen in PET scans. Pinkney collaborated with medical professionals and utilized brain scans to inform the print designs for the six pieces.
Her work will be featured in the museum's new 'Costume Art' exhibition, opening to the public on May 10th. This exhibition will showcase 400 outfits and objects spanning 5,000 years, placing Pinkney's designs alongside historical and contemporary fashion.
Pinkney's collection is notably paired with a lithograph by Willem de Kooning, an artist whose later works were impacted by Alzheimer's. She and her mother attended the exhibition's opening event in New York.
