If you find yourself in Ottawa, the Canadian War Museum has a neat exhibition on right now called Camouflage: from Battlefield to Catwalk, running until January 3, 2010.
“The innovative exhibition Camouflage traces the colourful history of military camouflage over the last century, from the simple concealment of soldiers and objects to the use of camouflage-inspired designs in a wide range of commercial and artistic products. This extensive exhibition shows how the art of military concealment and deception is a product of human imagination, artistic skill and scientific ingenuity, and how designs, applications and effectiveness have varied greatly over time.”
The ads feature this awesome pink cammo shoe: “Philip Treacy for Gina Couture, 2003; material inspired by Andy Warhol’s Camouflage series C.” My army friend was pretty floored to see a massive pink shoe plastered on the windows of a room full of tanks, lol. If only the troops could battle it out on the catwalk instead of the battlefield. Walk-off!
