‘Fashion as art': Ayesha Curry stuns in custom GapStudio dress at SFMOMA Art Bash
The hottest couple at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Art Bash fundraiser brought a golden lustre to the evening.
Restaurant and lifestyle entrepreneur Ayesha Curry attended the institution's annual fundraiser gala on Wednesday, April 23, wearing a custom gold Zac Posen for GapStudio dress on the arm of the designer. Posen is Gap Inc.'s vice president and creative director as well as a new board member at the museum, which has a long association with Gap's founding Fisher family. (Robert J. Fisher is chairman of the board and SFMOMA has a long term loan of the family's storied art collection.)
Curry's husband, Golden State Warrior point guard Stephen Curry, was in Houston playing the Rockets (the team lost 109-94) while Posen's fiance, dancer and choreographer Harrison Ball, was on the East Coast for the premiere of his latest ballet 'New Ancient Strings"at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
'It's gold denim for our golden girl, and who doesn't love a 'Flashdance' cut?' Posen joked of the off-the shoulder dress, which was cinched with a gold-coated denim corset. 'It's coming (to GapStudio) in T-shirt dresses in a few months.'
The new GapStudio collection made its debut online and in stores in April with elevated versions of brand signatures like denim and belted trench coats. Celebrities like actors Anne Hathaway and Timothee Chalamet have also debuted looks from the new line, further adding to the star power Gap has been amassing since Posen joined the brand in February 2024.
Curry revealed that it was her first time visiting SFMOMA, but said that seeing the museum had long been on her 'bucket list.'
'I was speaking to my sister and my husband around the kitchen table and brought that up, then a couple weeks later I got invited to this and said, 'It's a sign! '' Curry told the Chronicle. 'I'm really happy to be here. It's my first time, but it won't be my last.'
Curry completed the look with a pair of western-inspired boots and noted that she appreciated the versatility of Posen's design.
'You can dress it up and wear it to an event like this, you can elevate it, or you can dress it down,' said Curry. 'That's truly San Francisco style.'
For Posen, whose father Stephen Arnold Posen is an artist in New York, joining the museum board feels like a full circle moment.
'Early in my career there was an exhibition on glamour here that I had a piece in, made of hay and straw from my 'Sargasso' collection,' said Posen, recalling 2004's 'Glamour Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture' at SFMOMA.
'I was an intern for many years as a teenager at the Met Museum Costume Institute. That intersection between art and fashion can be a real crowd draw, but it can also build amazing storytelling,' he went on. 'I grew up in museums, they changed my life.'
The designer teased that he's currently working on 'a top secret project' with SFMOMA. Could it be the museum's first full fashion exhibition in 42 years?
SFMOMA Director Christopher Bedford noted that the Issey Miyake celebration 'Bodyworks' in 1983 was the last time fashion was given a starring role at the museum but that a few pieces had shown up in recent exhibitions like 'Get in the Game: Sports, Art and Culture' in 2024.
'I'm really interested in the idea of fashion as art,' Bedford told the Chronicle.
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