Frida Kahlo's Hidden Colors

Frieda Kahlo’s paintings, color schemes, and groundbreaking tropes have been fascinating researchers and museumgoers for decades. Her relationship with fashion and dress, however, is less well-known. Kahlo, who regarded her appearance as a part of her artistic creation, is an enduring source of inspiration to the worlds of fashion and design, from Givenchy and Gaultier to Madonna. Pain, beauty, disability, feminism, and strength are all intertwined in her story, as well as in her clothes. Following the textures, colors, dress, jewelry, and ideas of radical feminism that were decades ahead of their time, this lecture will endeavor to unearth the character of one of the most fascinating figures in the world of art history.