Object Timeline

  • We acquired this object.

1983

  • Work on this object began.

2020

2025

  • You found it!

Runway Video

This is a Runway video. It was created by Nam June Paik and produced by Paul Tschinkel.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Paul Tschinkel as part of Willi Smith: Street Couture.

It is dated 1983. Its medium is 12:14 minutes. It is a part of the department.

“I think art now should be in the street. I don’t think that the value or the beauty of art has to remain in the fact that it is a unique piece.”
—Laurie Mallet, former president of WilliWear

It is credited Courtesy of Paul Tschinkel, Inner-Tube Video.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Willi Smith: Street Couture.

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