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Last chance: The Art of Fashion
Viktor & Rolf, The Fashion Show, Fall/Winter 2007/8. Centraal Museum, Loan H+F Collection. Photo Peter Stigter, model Maryna Linchuk (DNA Models).
The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions
19 September 2009 - 10 January 2010
In The Art of Fashion, this autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen investigates the borders between fashion and art. Today’s fashion designers use installations and performances, and their designs are often more sculptural than wearable. Five of them have been commissioned to make new work specifically for the exhibition.
The H+F Fashion on the Edge programme allows designers to abandon the strict rules of fashion and make work unconstrained by other considerations. The relationship between the two disciplines is revealed by these and other works at the cutting edge of fashion and art.
Catalogue
The exhibition is accompanied by The Art of Fashion catalogue, which examines the work and the backgrounds of the artists and designers taking part. (ISBN 978-90-6918-241-4, €17,50) There is also a book, Fashion and Imagination, (d’jonge Hond Publishers, ISBN 978-90-89101-40-2, €39,95), which throws light on the background to the relationship between art and fashion. Both publications are available in our Museum Shop.
The Art of Fashion has been compiled by guest curators José Teunissen (lecturer at ArtEZ Arnhem) and Judith Clark (exhibition maker, London).
The exhibition was made possible by the H+F Fashion on the Edge programme of author and art collector Han Nefkens, and by the Mondriaan Foundation, SNS Reaal Fonds and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.
The Dutch edition of ELLE celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year and is our media partner. The exhibition is a major part of the official programme of Holland Art Cities 2009-2010.
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