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FROCKS AND BLOCKS.

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The fashion world is commonly accused of taking itself too seriously. An ambitious show that opened last week at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art suggests that it may not be taking itself seriously enough. "Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture" is the first exhibition of its scale and kind--more than three hundred contemporary works by forty-six mostly avant-garde architects and designers, chosen to represent what Brooke Hodge, MOCA's curator of architecture and design, calls the "increasingly fruitful dialogue" between the two disciplines.

Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown, the architects who designed the installation, reconfigured ...

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