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  • We acquired this object.

1984

  • Work on this object began.

2020

2025

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Runway Video

This is a Runway video. It was collaborator: RB/Mavericks Motion Graphics and produced by Paul Garrin and photographed by Stephen Gary Wallis and made for WilliWear Ltd..

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

It is dated 1984. Its medium is 10:18 minutes. It is a part of the department.


The SUB-Urban presentation included six one-minute film vignettes depicting American suburban life, a musical score by Jorge Socarras, and models who applied their own makeup, directed by Linda Mason.

It is credited Courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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

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