Celebrate L.A. Fashion Week by touring artworks along the Metro Red Line on March 14.
The free, one-day only tour will include visits to Faith Ringgold’s People's Portraits: in Creativity; Performing; Sports and Fashinon at Civic Center/Grand Park Station and Tyree Guyton’s People in Motion at Vermont/Beverly Station. The tour will be led by fashion industry insider Jay Carlile of Beverly Hills, who will discuss fashions depicted in the artworks along with historic L.A. trends.
The tour will begin at Union Station at 10 a.m. and will end at noon at 7th Street/Metro Center Station. From there, attendees can grab lunch at Cole’s French Dip in downtown L.A. and receive 15 percent off their food bill by presenting their valid TAP cards. Then, continue exploring fashion at the 23rd Annual Art of Motion Picture Costume Design exhibit at the Fashion Institute of Design and Marketing.
The tour will be approximately 90 percent walking. There are elevators and escalators in all of the stations. For more information about the fashion week art tour, visit metro.net/discounts.
Jay Carlile served as buyer and store director for Ralph Lauren and Martin Katz, and has launched collaborations with Badgely Mischka, Monique Lhuillier and Victoria’s Secret. His company Jay Carlile and Co. was launched in 2010, advising leading fashion and jewelry brands to help with PR, design and marketing strategies.
Metro Art Moves Tours
Artist led tours are designed to attract new riders through arts-based transit experiences. The tours highlight Metro’s diverse collection of artworks, heighten the passenger experience in fun and engaging ways to boost public perceptions about transit, promote rider etiquette and offer opportunities for discovery.
Docent-guided tours are offered the first Saturday and Sunday of every month. Tours for groups of fifteen or more are also available by special arrangement.
Metro Art implements the agency’s percent for art program, manages the care and maintenance of the system’s existing artworks and directs a volunteer docent council. From rail and bus stations to construction fences and poetry cards, art creates a sense of place and engages transit riders.
Since 1989, Metro has commissioned artists to incorporate artworks into a wide array of transportation projects throughout Los Angeles County. The agency has received numerous design and artistic excellence awards, and is renowned for its approaches to integrating art into the transit experience, and for engaging artists at all levels of their careers.
