The Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) has spent over nine years honing their collection of avant garde fashion designs. This year, they are able to debut their efforts in an exhibition, simply titled, "Cutting Edge Fashion: Recent Acquisitions."

The show will look at an array of pioneering designers who have altered the fashion conversation world—be it through new silhouettes, innovative use of materials and draping, or the subversion of the status quo. Viewers, for instance, will find a design by Austrian-born fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, the inventor of the topless single-piece swimsuit, the monokini.