Английская Википедия:Hushidar Mortezaie
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Hushidar "Hushi" Mortezaie (born 1972)[1] is an Iranian-born American fashion designer, artist, collagist, and graphic designer.[2][3] He co-founded the fashion label Michael and Hushi. Mortezaie is best known for his over-the-top Persian-aesthetic collaged textiles and fashion designs, often exploring glamour, politics, and kitsch.[4][5] He has lived and worked in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Early life and education
Hushidar Mortezaie was born in 1972 in Tehran, Iran.[1][4] He identifies as queer.[2] In 1975, at the age of 3, due to political reasons his family moved to Marin County in California where he was raised.[4][6] In 1990, he met Michael Sears while they were both living in San Francisco.[4] He was attending the University of California, Berkeley and studying fine art.[3]
Career
In 1994, Mortezaie moved with Sears to New York City.[4] He attended classes at Parsons School of Design, followed by classes at Fashion Institute of Technology.[7] Mortezaie was mentored and worked as a fashion buyer under Patricia Field.[3][8]
In 1997, Sears and Mortezaie opened an East Village boutique, Sears and Robot.[9][10] They made clothes that existed as a hybrid of Western and Middle Eastern fashion.[11] The initial clientele was primarily club kids and celebrities, and this evolved into contemporary fashion, couturier, and runways.[12][13] The shared the fashion label, Michael and Hushi, and this became the rebranded name of the storefront after pressure from Sears Roebuck.[4][14][15] They held a fashion show in the 1990s with models walking down the runway holding machine guns, wearing traditional Iranian chadors.[5] Their fashion was shown on the television series, Sex And The City (season 3, episode 43) with a dress worn by Sarah Jessica Parker; and in the film Fight Club (1999), with a printed shirt worn by Brad Pitt.[7][15][12] Michael and Hushi participated in the exhibition of artist hand painted boots, Dr. Martens Original Since 1960 (2003) at a gallery at 537 West 26th Street in New York City.[16] Michael and Hushi fashion pieces are sought after and collected, including by vintage dealer Olivia Haroutounian.[15][17]
Mortezaie's first art exhibition was in 2009 at the Morono Kiang Gallery in Los Angeles.[18] His art work has been part of notable art exhibitions including Theory of Survival: Fabrications (2014), curated by Taraneh Hemami at Southern Exposure;[19] The Third Muslim (2018), curated by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Yas Ahmed at SOMArts in San Francisco;[2][20] Occupy Me: Branding Culture, Identity & The Politics of Fashion (2018) at Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery in Los Angeles;[8] and Ctrl + Alt + Fashion: Manufacturing Iranian Identity (2019) at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.[21] Mortezaie has worked with artist Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on the design of performance costumes.[22]
See also
References
External links
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- Hushidar Mortezaie Collection, from DIVA, Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University
- Podcast: Contemporary Iranian Art Takes Off In L.A. (2009), All Things Considered, featuring commentary by Mortezaie
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