Shocking Pink: The Fashionable History of a Debated Color

How did the color pink, once considered masculine, come to be thought of as “cute” and distinctly feminine? And how did it find a place in the varied cultural movements of punk, hip-hop, avant-garde, and feminism? This lecture brings together highlights of art history, cinema, erotica, and haute couture in an exploration of the surprising and fickle history of one of the world’s most controversial colors.