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Exhibition: Mutilate?
date 26.05.2001 – 07.10.2001
location MUHKA, Antwerpen
creation Flanders Fashion Institute (Fashion Organisation)
curator Walter Van Beirendonck (Fashion Design)
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text Fashion is the starting point for this exceptional exhibition,in search of historical, ethnic and aesthetic points of contact. From these several angles, MUTILATE?-VERMINK? offers a survey of the various ways throughout history and all over the world man has used extreme, bizarre, crazy and singular forms of fashion, body decoration and manipulation. It shows how man is forever adapting his appearance, mostly for social and religious reasons. Among other things, it shows several aspects of the history of Western fashion, including 18th-century crinolines and corsets and more recent expressions of fashion such as body painting and other Western body cultures. In addition it focuses on ethnographic and anthropological items such as skull distortions,... [more]


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  1 © FFI / Antwerpen Open, 2 © Verne, 3 © Bert Houbrechts / © Kurt De Wit, 4 © Bert Houbrechts / © Kurt De Wit, 5 © Bert Houbrechts / © Kurt De Wit, 6 © Verne, 7 © Bert Houbrechts / © Kurt De Wit, 8 © Bert Houbrechts / © Kurt De Wit, 9 © Bert Houbrechts / © Kurt De Wit, 10 © Bert Houbrechts / © Kurt De Wit, 11 © Bert Houbrechts / © Kurt De Wit, 12 © Verne, 13 © Verne, 14 © Verne, 15 © Verne, 16 © Verne, 17 © Verne

participants A.F. Vandevorst (Fashion Design)
G+N (Fashion Design)
Hussein Chalayan (Fashion Design)
Maison Martin Margiela (Fashion Design)
contribution B-architecten (Architecture)


Exhibition
2001 Mode 2001 Landed-Geland


source
Flanders Fashion Institute FFI

 
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