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Current Online Poster Show: Fashion of the Times
Welcome to our current IVPDA show, FASHION OF THE TIMES.
This Exhibition reflects how Fashion mirrors and illuminates many different aspects of our Society and our Times. We have really come a long way from the Victorian era corsets to the "sisterhood of the traveling pant-suits".
Fashions that immediately summon up a bold visual image are the Victorian (1900's), oh so prim and proper; 1910's with it's Dough Boys in uniform, Clara Bow (1920's) with that unforgettable page boy haircut; 1930's Art Deco, World War II era with the Rosie the Riveters working outside of the home en mass for the first time; 1950's with the ubiquitious hats worn by men and ladies, 1960's Hippy bellbottoms and paisley prints; 1970's "Grease" era and the 1980's MTV era. Seems like yesterday (1990's) with the shoulder pads and big hair left over from the 80's. Remember Alexis and Crystal, OMG!
In art nouveau, travel, political, movie, product, psychedelic and other posters images of what was fashionable at the time was always there.
Whether we lived through or just enjoyed on television or in the movies, i.e. Up Stairs, Down Stairs or Saturday Night Fever, fashion can be fun. Not just dressing up but reliving the memories or reflecting on times long gone by. In Noel Coward's wonderful melody " You are the Top" we can share all those wonderful fashionable themes, many which are still timeless today.
These posters shown here, some with great flourish and some with subtlety, help us enjoy these times.
Our worldwide IVPDA Membership presents this Show until the end of November.
The IVPDA Online Gallery provides an opportunity for Collectors, Dealers, and Museum Curators to view authentic vintage posters by various noted artists reflecting a Spanish theme. To purchase these works of art go directly to the websites of the Members. The IVPDA web site also contains useful information for the consumer on how to identify and purchase other certified vintage posters.
Click here to enter the Online Gallery to see our show — Fashion of the Times. All posters are certified as authentic and are currently in the collections of IVPDA members. All posters are for sale. The dealer's e-mail address is shown with every poster
Poster Events
Poster exhibits are popular throughout the world and should be a destination for poster collectors! As you are planning your trips don't forget to contact the local museums and galleries in advance to check out their current and upcoming shows. Here,for example, are some wonderful links into the world of poster art. If you know of other vintage poster sites (collections, museums shows) that you would like us to feature we would be happy to consider adding them to this page.
To introduce you to the incredible diversity of the poster world here is our initial offering of some public collections, museums and exhibitions:
- Arhus (DK), Dansk Plakatmuseum
- Bayreuth (DE), Kleines Plakatmuseum
- Hamburg (DE), Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe
- Berne (CH), Swiss National Library, Poster collection
- Zurich (CH), Museum of Design Zurich
- Amsterdam (NL), International Institute of Social History The chairman smiles - Exhibition 1997
- Hoorn (NL), Affiche Museum / Dutch Poster Museum
- Stockholm (SE), Kungliga Biblioteket National Library of Sweden
- Paris (FR), Musee de la Publicite
- Toulouse (FR), Le Musée Toulouse Lautrec
- Toulouse (FR), Le centre de l'affiche de la marie du Toulouse
- Ohara (JP), Ohara Institute of Social Reasearch
- Tokyo (JP), DNP Gallery
- Warsaw (PL), Muzeum Plakatu Wilanow
- Toronto (CA), Canadian Posters from the First World War
- Miami (US), Wolfsonian - Florida International University
- New York (US), The Museum of Modern Art
- Washington DC (US), American Posters of World War One
- Washington DC (US), The Library of Congress
- Washington DC (US), Georgetown University
- Les affichistes de la rˇvolution espagnole 1936 / 1939



