MoMA was founded in 1929 and has the foremost collection of 20th-century art including 100, 000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs and architectural and design displays.
Mens design director Frank Muytjens said he worked off the color-block paintings of Ellsworth Kelly to create a collection of slim and rolled-up jeans, crisp one- and two-button blazers, and square-cut sweaters.
In the context of this show, Op Art paintings by Bridget Riley and others seem freed of the influence they had on 1960s fashion and design, which detracted from the serious goals behind their dynamic perceptual effects.
He got in touch with Tenzin and spent the next six months looking for design inspiration in everything from flea-market cast-offs to old brickwork and Raoul Dufy paintings.