Throwback: Imperial Fashion

Back when shoulder padded women's blazers were all the rage (i.e. the eighties), Beltrami's fashions were no exception. They had a giant and fancy store on 55th st. and 5th Ave and Geoff did the windows. For that year's 'travel collection' Geoff recreated a slice of China using 2 giant Foo dog statues and his signature hand painted background, in this case a lovely pagoda inspired fantasy in grisaille.

Throwback: Beltrami, Fashion as Art

In New York in the art-crazed 80's, even fashion was obsessed! At the time Geoff was doing all the windows for the Beltrami Fifth Avenue Store, which was between 55th and 56th Streets, and Geoff's take on a fashion-meets-art window design was to create an art gallery style "exhibition" of Beltrami's 'exhibitionistic' clothing with the mannequins (also in Beltrami outfits) as the art-goers. To underline the theme, the walls were covered in high quality artist's canvas, and the frames were museum quality from Eli Wilner.