Ishiuchi Miyako captures the defiant beauty of Kahlo's closet

Nick Compton, Wallpaper* magazine, May 11, 2015

Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako has catalogued the 300 pieces of Frida Kahlo relics found in a sealed bathroom of her famous 'Blue House', which she shared with Diego Riviera before her death. The photographs are now on show at London's Michael Hoppen Gallery.


When the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo died in 1954, aged just 47, her husband Diego Riviera began storing her clothes, accessories and other personal effects in a bathroom in their Mexico City home. Riviera gave instructions that the room remain sealed until 15 years after his death.