Gaddafi Wants Costume Institute Exhibit To Celebrate ‘Superior Dress Sense’
Oh goodie, more Quadaffi news.
Beyond his ruthless barbarism at murdering his own citizens, you’d be hard pressed to find someone unable to appreciate that the man’s got some serious threads. You can read all about it below, but come on, you know you just want to look at his outfits.Let’s take a gander:
Huffington Post: Zainab Bint Abu Talib, an aide to Mr. Moussa Khalid Wahabb, the new Minister for Cultural Affairs in Libya, contacted New York Times Fashion Editor Horacio Silva with an interesting request: help Gaddafi score a Costume Institute exhibit in his honor.
Each year the Costume Institute hosts a major, fashion-based exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in N.Y.C. This year, it’s “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty,” celebrating the late designer’s work. Last year, it was “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity.” And come 2013, Mr. Talib hopes it’ll be Gaddafi’s turn.
An excerpt from an email sent to Silva:
A contact from our UN staff has been in dialogue with Mr. Harold Koda’s people at the Costume Institute at your Metropolitan Museum in New York. There is intense interest in our proposal for a retrospective in 2013 of Colonel Gaddafi’s four decades of superior dress sense. In the last month the compound next to the presidential palace was badly damaged in a bombing raid and we are very concerned should the same happen to the palace the result might be the destruction of over 3400 items of breathtaking sartorial magnificence: Decades of Military uniforms and leisure wear mostly hand made from the finest fabrics on earth that show not only President Col. Gaddafi’s strong commitment to leadership qualities but his relaxed and informal side as a devoted family man who loves to entertain.
But Gaddafi’s “superior dress sense” hasn’t been confined to Libya’s borders. Oh, no:
Indeed many of his clothes have featured in global magazines from the hundreds of state visits and functions he has hosted over the years for world leaders. All of whom are in agreement, ahumdullillah, that our President is one of the very best dressed men of the last half century. It is not only African and Arab leaders who have been influenced by his style and substance but many western rock stars and celebrities have also been won over by the Gaddafi look: most notably Michael Jackson in the 1980′s copied the signature motif military style of our leader to great chart success on his own terms.
