Victoria Bartlett Explained

Victoria Bartlett
Nationality:	American
Birth Place:	Gloucester, England
Label Name:	BC

Victoria Bartlett is a British-born designer and stylist. She graduated from the London College of Fashion.^[1]

Career

Her career began in design, illustration, and brand consultancy for a prestigious portfolio of brands and designers, including Miu Miu, Versace, DKNY, Moncler, Lacroix, Calvin Klein, and Theory. She was the stylist of the first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 1995.^[2] Bartlett gained accolades styling^[3] for Björk, Madonna, Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie, Chloe Sevigney, Pharrell Williams, and Venus Williams. She was Fashion Editor at Allure magazine prior to becoming Fashion Director for Interview and BIG Magazine. She has created fashion editorials for i-D, Numéro, V, French, Italian, and L'Uomo Vogue.

List of achievements

• 1999 Participated in the Brooklyn Anchorage Exhibition presented by Creative Time called "Exposing the meaning in Fashion through Presentation", curated an installation called Loud & Unhinged with film director Douglas Keeves, art director Richard Pandiscio and set designers Big Room.^[4]
• 2002 Designed the clown sculptures for Ugo Rondinone's exhibition If There Were Anywhere But Desert at Mathew Marks Gallery
• 2005 Participated in FutureFashion's kickoff event for Christo and Jean-Claude's installation of The Gates in Central Park to benefit the Earth Pledge foundation
• 2009 Curated "A Candid look at the Anatomical fascination of Visible Panty Line" with Susanna Cucco and Gloria Capeletti at Gallery Dopolavoro in Milan^[5]
• 2011 Curated the show Squat with Orly Genger hosted by Yvonne le Force Villareal of Art Production Fund and Clarissa Dalrymple^[6]
• 2011 Designed costumes in latex for a special performance installation at Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet with choreographer Benoit Swan
• 2011 Collaborated with choreographer Emery LeCrone and Avi Scher for Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum set to the music of Pulitzer Prize composer Elliott Carter^[7]
• 2011 Participated in the sartorial exhibition Limited/Unlimited conceived by Silvia Venturini Fendi and curated by Susanna Cucco in Rome^[8]
• 2012 Curated the group show Second skin with 14 artists including Ugo Rondinone, John Giorno, Sarah Lucas, Genesis P-Orridge, Collier Schorr, Jack Pierson, Adam McEwen, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, David Armstrong, Judith Eisler, Jessica Mitrani, Shoplifter, Mark Borthwick and Katerina Jebb^[9]
• 2012 Winner of the CFDA/Lexus Eco Challenge^[10]
• 2013 "Lightness of Being" live clown sculpture collaboration with Ugo Rondinone for the Public Art Fund in City Hall Park^[11]

External links

• • Who Will Pull Together the Collections?

Notes and References

1. News: Wallace. Chris. Victoria Bartlett Says Take Small Steps, Not Giant Leaps. The Business of Fashion. 15 November 2010.
2. News: Rossi. Carina. What the first ever Victoria's Secret Fashion Show looked like in 1995. style.nine. 15 October 2020.
3. News: Spindler. Amy M.. Who Needs Designers?. The New York Times. 5 June 1994.
4. Pasternak, Anne. Creative Time: The Book: 33 Years of Public Art in New York, 2007, p. 267
5. Davies, Olivier. "Milan Fashion Week: Victoria Bartlett & VPL." FreeStyle Magazine, 6 October 2009
6. News: MacDonell. Nancy. Fashion With a Twist – Orly Genger at VPL. New York Times T Magazine. 10 May 2011.
7. LeCrone, Emery. ' 'With Thoughtful Lightness' '. The Music of Elliott Carter Interpreted, New Choreography by Emery LeCrone and Avichai Scher (video recording), 2011
8. Spezzigu, Andrea. ' 'Limited/Unlimited Small Objects of Desire' '. Made in Town, 27 February 2011
9. Brown, Alix. "Up Close and Personal/ 'Second Skin' at VPL." New York Times T Magazine, 16 May 2012
10. McCall, Tyler. "CFDA Amps up Commitment to Sustainability with New Committee." Fashionista, 19 April 2013
11. Torkells, Erik. 'Lightness of Being' at City Hall Park." Tribeca Citizen, 25 July 2013.