Object Timeline

  • We acquired this object.

1987

  • Work on this object began.

1989

  • Work on this object ended.

2020

2025

  • You found it!

Photograph, Just (some) friends

This is a Photograph. It was photographed by Sergio Purtell.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Laurie Mallet as part of Willi Smith: Street Couture.

It is dated ca. 1988. Its medium is print on newsprint. It is a part of the department.


"Willi is the one who connected this high-minded idea of fashion to everyday people and made them feel like they were a part of it. That has had a huge impact on the public’s embrace of fashion today—their feeling of ownership over it. Because Willi Smith taught them that fashion could be affordable. It could also be made at home. And it was theirs for the taking."

—Bethann Hardison, president and creative director, Bethann Management

It is credited Courtesy of Laurie Mallet.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 45.7 × 66 cm (18 × 26 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Willi Smith: Street Couture.

There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian’s Terms of Use page.

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