Susan Cianciolo, a key figure in 1990s New York indie fashion, is curating a booth at the Outsider Art Fair that recreates her Run Home Store concept from 2000. She has invited 44 friends to contribute unique objects for sale, priced from $50 to $10,000. The fair takes place at the Metropolitan Pavilion from March 19 to 22.
Susan Cianciolo, an artist and teacher prominent in New York’s downtown indie fashion scene during the 1990s, is reviving her Run Home Store project at the Outsider Art Fair. Her label Run operated from 1995 to 2001, known for its scrappy, collaborative approach. Cianciolo recalls finding abandoned spaces for shows, such as a parking garage for Run 6 and Lady Mendl’s Tea Salon for another, where models served family-recipe chocolate truffles. Collections were handmade in a communal 'sewing circle' style, involving diverse participants from start to finish. The 11th and final collection, Run Store, debuted in New York in 2000 and Paris in 2001, featuring a surrealist edge presented in an abandoned storefront as both store and performance reflecting her interior world. For this OAF booth, Cianciolo designs it to resemble her home and has selected 44 contributors—past collaborators, former and current students—asking, “Who are the artists that we live with? And what designers do I love that maybe are hard for people to get their hands on? I focused on every single thing being a one-off, too, so there was a thread between everything.” Items include a chair from SC103 and a stool from her home. She describes the project as channeling an “energy of love” connecting past and present. The Outsider Art Fair runs at the Metropolitan Pavilion from March 19 to 22.
