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Lauren Amos, founding father of two of Atlanta’s most cutting-edge vogue locations, ANT/DOTE and Want ATL, has lengthy been an model chief within the metropolis. She’s equally recognized for her philanthropic efforts, supporting essential Atlanta establishments akin to Meals on Wheels Atlanta, Spelman Faculty’s Museum of Nice Artwork, SCAD, and the Excessive Museum of Artwork, the place she’s been a board member since 2013.
Now, with a multimillion greenback reward offered by her The Lauren Amos Style Undertaking, the Excessive can entice a devoted vogue curator and broaden its vogue exhibit choices and programming. The upcoming Viktor&Rolf exhibit, which opens this fall, would be the first in a sequence of devoted vogue reveals over 5 years.
“I’m enthusiastic about serving to fund a curator and growing a division that’s severe about vogue. The aim is to get somebody in who is concentrated on every part vogue and who is devoted to having all these exhibitions constantly come right here,” says Amos, who was closely concerned within the Excessive’s previous vogue reveals, together with Iris van Herpen: Remodeling Style and Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech.
The primary exhibit, Viktor&Rolf. Style Statements, will showcase one of high fashion’s most celebrated manufacturers. Based by Dutch vogue designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, the model is thought for its technical prowess, development particulars, and conceptual artistry. The Excessive is the unique American cease for his or her retrospective, which is able to include over 100 of their creations from the previous 30 years. “Individuals don’t typically have the chance to see all these items in particular person,” she says. “I’m excited to deliver a present of this caliber to point out off their breadth of labor and what they’ve completed of their careers.”
Amos is worked up to see the response the primary exhibition funded by The Lauren Amos Style Undertaking will deliver. “I’ve been in retail in Atlanta for a very long time. The group right here could be very into vogue and loves these exhibitions, and I do know they’d prefer to see extra. They’re very obsessed with self-expression. I wish to give again to the group and proceed to coach myself and everybody else about vogue, historical past, and artwork,” she says.
Viktor&Rolf. Style Statements opens on the Excessive Museum of Artwork on October 10 and can run by February 8, 2026.
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