Adelle Lutz (born 1948) is an American artist, designer and actress,
most known for work using unconventional materials and strategies to
explore clothing as a communicative medium. She first gained attention
for the surreal "Urban Camouflage" costumes featured in David Byrne's
film True Stories (1986). She has designed costumes for film director
Susan Seidelman, theater directors Robert Wilson and JoAnne Akalaitis,
and musicians including Byrne, Bono and Michael Stipe. In the 1990s,
she began to shift from costume to sculpture, installation art and
eventually, performance. Lutz's art and design have been exhibited at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Fashion Institute of Technology
(FIT) (New York), the Victoria and Albert Museum and Barbican Art
Centre (London), the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts and the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland), among many venues. In 2002, the
Judith Clark Costume Gallery in London presented a career survey. Her
work has also been featured in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine,
Newsweek, Village Voice, Vanity Fair and Paper and in books on
fashion, costume and public art, including Fashion and Surrealism
(1987), Designed for Delight (1997), Twenty Years of Style: The World
According to Paper (2004), and Because Dreaming is Best Done in
Public: Creative Time in Public Spaces (2012). Her work Ponytail Boot
(2002) is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.Lutz was
born in Lakewood, Ohio in 1948. Her parents were Mona Miwako Furuki, a
native of Japan who studied couture and Walter Lutz, an American
businessman in international trade; they met in occupied Japan on
Christmas Day 1945, while Walter served with the United States Army.
Their collection of over 4,000 Asian bamboo works and objects is part
of the Denver Art Museum's collection and was exhibited in the
museum's Walter + Mona Lutz Gallery, which Adelle co-designed.As a
teenager, Lutz moved with her family to Tokyo, where she attended
International Christian University and with her sister, jewelry
designer Tina Chow, modeled for the cosmetics company Shiseido, among
other firms, between 1967â€"1972.Lutz was working with theater
director Robert Wilson, when she met David Byrne in 1982; the three
collaborated on The Knee Plays section of Wilson's opera, the CIVIL
warS. She and Byrne married in 1987 and their daughter, Malu Abeni
Valentine Lutz Byrne, was born in 1989.
most known for work using unconventional materials and strategies to
explore clothing as a communicative medium. She first gained attention
for the surreal "Urban Camouflage" costumes featured in David Byrne's
film True Stories (1986). She has designed costumes for film director
Susan Seidelman, theater directors Robert Wilson and JoAnne Akalaitis,
and musicians including Byrne, Bono and Michael Stipe. In the 1990s,
she began to shift from costume to sculpture, installation art and
eventually, performance. Lutz's art and design have been exhibited at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Fashion Institute of Technology
(FIT) (New York), the Victoria and Albert Museum and Barbican Art
Centre (London), the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts and the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland), among many venues. In 2002, the
Judith Clark Costume Gallery in London presented a career survey. Her
work has also been featured in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine,
Newsweek, Village Voice, Vanity Fair and Paper and in books on
fashion, costume and public art, including Fashion and Surrealism
(1987), Designed for Delight (1997), Twenty Years of Style: The World
According to Paper (2004), and Because Dreaming is Best Done in
Public: Creative Time in Public Spaces (2012). Her work Ponytail Boot
(2002) is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.Lutz was
born in Lakewood, Ohio in 1948. Her parents were Mona Miwako Furuki, a
native of Japan who studied couture and Walter Lutz, an American
businessman in international trade; they met in occupied Japan on
Christmas Day 1945, while Walter served with the United States Army.
Their collection of over 4,000 Asian bamboo works and objects is part
of the Denver Art Museum's collection and was exhibited in the
museum's Walter + Mona Lutz Gallery, which Adelle co-designed.As a
teenager, Lutz moved with her family to Tokyo, where she attended
International Christian University and with her sister, jewelry
designer Tina Chow, modeled for the cosmetics company Shiseido, among
other firms, between 1967â€"1972.Lutz was working with theater
director Robert Wilson, when she met David Byrne in 1982; the three
collaborated on The Knee Plays section of Wilson's opera, the CIVIL
warS. She and Byrne married in 1987 and their daughter, Malu Abeni
Valentine Lutz Byrne, was born in 1989.
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