Frida Kahlo's iconic wardrobe on display in striking photo series

Frida Kahlo was known for her striking self portraits, but it is through her most intimate possessions that we can see the artist as she truly was.
Shortly after the Mexican artist's death in 1954, her husband, fellow artist Diego Rivera, locked away most of her prized possessions in a bathroom in their famous "Blue House" in Mexico City. It wasn't until 2004, 47 years after Rivera's death, that Kahlo's items were allowed to be unlocked.
Museo Frida Kahlo, which also catalogued more than 300 of the Kahlo's personal items, commissioned artist Ishiuchi Miyako to photograph some of the most iconic relics that were found at the Blue House for her series, Frida.

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Ishiuchi noted on Michael Hoppen Gallery website that she knew very little about Kahlo before she went to Mexico. "She came to know her through her photographs, obsessing over the traces that Kahlo as a woman left on her belongings," it says on the series overview.
Kahlo is well known as a style icon mostly due to her striking self-portraits. Her colorful flower crowns and unibrow were a signature of the artist. She also wore bright, flowing dresses that hid her prosthetic leg and thick, corrective corset she wore every day due to a severe injury she sustained in her mid-twenties.
Ishiuchi's photographs also serve as a portrait of the artist herself, not just objects she owned, "because they are so much like a photograph…They are visible events recorded in the past," she says on the series website.
Miyako's photographs will be on display at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London from May 14 until July 12. More information about the exhibition can be found on the gallery's website.

A dress with a red bottom and a green top.

A red skirt with corset top with a large hole in it.