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| 'Sputnik’ preparing to orbit SMoCA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| By Chris Page, Get Out | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| June 21, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Murray, owner of Urban Hair in Phoenix and the museum’s longtime go-to coiffeur, shot into orbit. “He squealed,” says Oliver. With visions of “Barbarella,” the campy 1968 sci-fi B-movie swirling in his head, the 38-year-old pitched for his first foray into designing a fashion show for SMoCA Nights — the museum’s popular thrice-annual themed fetes that bring a see-and-be-seen scene to the museum with a potent mix of fashion, dancers, DJ music, drinks and performances. The latest SMoCA Nights is dubbed “Sputnik,” done in conjunction with the museum’s new exhibit, “Space Is the Place,” a traveling show on space exploration, with modern multimedia musings on space by artists such as Laurie Anderson. The exhibit runs through Sept. 2. For his first fashion show, Murray took a cue from the vintage wares at his recently opened Retro Redux store — one part vintage kitsch haven, one part “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” — and, with an imaginary Esquivel album playing in the background, he’s giving those styles a faux-spacey twist. “Think 1970s prom dress meets Elizabethan bustles and poofy shoulders and hips,” Murray says, “in futuristic metallics. It’s like futuristic gowns for royalty.” For Murray, a younger-looking guy with tattoos crawling up his arms and a piercing through his tongue, retro-futurism’s appeal lies in looking back at what the past imagined the future — meaning today — would be like, what they got wrong and what they got right. With a small army of stylists and seamstresses working on his designs, Murray promises his show, though soaked in retro cool, will be anything but campy. “It’s going to be extremely colorful,” he says. “I’m a guy that goes all the way in a fashion sense.” Contact Chris Page by email, or phone (480) 898-5656 |
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