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Critically Costumed For Storefront

Critically Costumed For Storefront

“Banality,” the theme of Storefront‘s Critical Halloween costume fundraiser, was manifested in an array of clever–and occasionally perplexing–forms on Saturday evening at the 3-Legged Dog in Manhattan. Blizzard-like conditions did not deter a group of over 250 design-o-philes and at least one (in)famous party crasher from getting decked out in spandex, foam, plush, rubber, tulle, and acres of cardboard. The weather did prevent Liz Diller from arriving to judge the costume contest, but her fearless partner Charles Renfro stepped into the breach, and channeling Damien Hirst in a rhinstone-studded skull mask (“Greed”), took his place alongside judges Wangechi Mutu (embodying Pantone’s “Bluebird”) and Justin Davidson (dressed as an architecture critic).

Each of the three judges picked a winner, and all the winners happened to come in pairs: “Eyes of the Beholder” (Lisa and Ted Landrum); “1:1 Human Scale, male + female” (Kyle May and Julia van den Hout); and the intriguing “Doll Face” (Mark Kroeckel/moustache and Alison Cutlan).  Some architects riffed on their own current work in the costumes (Jing Liu/SO-IL, Meissen exhibition) while others seem to reflect more a state of mind (Bjarke Ingels/BIG, King Kong with colleague Daniel as the Empire State Building; Mitch Joachim/Terreform1 as “Not Bucky”).

Now Storefront and Domus are sponsoring an online People’s Choice contest. Whose costume gets your vote for most critically banal? See the line-up here.

 


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