Women's Isabel Ruben Toledo For Mac

DETROIT, MICH.- presents Ruben and Isabel Toledo: Labor of Love, a major exhibition of new works created by the artistic couple in response to works in the DIA’s permanent collection. This three-part exhibition project includes a large-scale installation designed by the Toledos in response to iconic Diego Rivera cartoons from his Detroit Industry Murals; additional new works by the Toledos responding to works in the DIA’s collection, located throughout the museum; and a collaboration with local nonprofit Sew Great Detroit, through which the Toledos worked with seamstresses from the organization to generate a collection of handmade limited-edition tote bags to complement the exhibition. For Labor of Love, Ruben and Isabel Toledo produced an innovative range of new works that highlight their creative synergy, connect the past with the present, and will inspire the DIA’s visitors to understand connections between fashion and art with the works in the DIA’s collection—in new and unexpected ways. Ruben & Isabel Toledo: Labor of Love will open at the DIA on December 16, 2018, and run through July 7, 2019. The exhibition is organized by Laurie Ann Farrell, the DIA’s Curator and Department Head for The James Pearson Duffy Department of Modern & Contemporary Art.

1. Women's Isabel Ruben Toledo For Machine

Isabel Toledo (Cuban-American, b. 1961) is a renowned fashion designer and artist whose oeuvre includes the dress that Michelle Obama wore to President Barack Obama’s 2009 Inauguration. Ruben Toledo (Cuban-America, b. 1961) is an artist whose paintings and illustrations also have strong connections to fashion and style.

This exhibition marks the first time the artists have made works inspired by a major museum’s collection. Working within the framework of the DIA’s world-class, encyclopedic collection, the Toledos engaged with works by Francisco Goya, Alison Saar, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Robert Motherwell, and others from Central Africa and ancient Egypt. By mining the DIA’s collection as inspiration for new sculptures, paintings, drawings, and installations, the Toledos, together with the DIA, present the Museum’s collection in a new light.

Women's Isabel Ruben Toledo For Machine

Beauty products built on loveand lipstick. Some people talk about love at first sight, but for (a Tony-nominated designer who devised Inauguration Day ensemble) and Ruben Toledo (a renowned artist commissioned by the likes of Louis Vuitton) who met at age 13, it was love at first lipstick. “Have you ever not seen me in red?” Isabel asks her husband and collaborator on the vast range of 45 products for bowing February 5. “She can define the whole world in red, but different reds—different intensities of red. She really has her vocabulary of reds down,” Ruben explained. It should come as no surprise, then, that the collection includes not just one crimson bullet, but six variations on the shade—allowing the world to learn her entire lipstick lexicon in just a few swipes.

Matching glosses were also a must-have for Isabel—helping women create a multidimensional look via layering (a trend spotted on the ). “You’re putting on the same coloration, but a different texture of it, which is very close to fashion, to clothing,” she noted. “You could choose to do matte lipstick on the bottom and shine on the top. It’s almost like how you put fabrics together.” Since the two regularly finish one another’s sentences, Ruben chimed in, “There’s a story happening and it’s very subtle.”.

The duo didn’t stop there: Their extensive palette includes soft lilacs, neutral browns, true blues, and a pop of lime for eyes (reminiscent of Isabel’s “New Wave” phase and time spent under the disco ball at Studio 54). And the black-white-and-red packaging designed by Ruben (a sneak peek of what’s to come is seen in the sketch above) is as eye-catching as the colors inside. “I wanted the outside to be graphic, and then I wanted the inside to be where the softness was,” said Isabel. Ruben’s longtime muse (his wife and her signature ruby mouth) inspired the illustration scrawled across shadow cases and nail polish bottles. “Who else?” he quipped.

“It’s the face I draw again and again and always. It’s just in the flow of my hand, Isabel’s face.” As for whether he’ll be using MAC lipsticks as his new medium, Ruben said, “I tried, but the point wears off like that snaps fingers—I have a heavy hand! I break my pencil tips really fast, so you can imagine lipsticks don’t last very long.”.