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Exhibition: Skin Tight : The sensibility of the flesh
date 26.06.2004 – 05.09.2004
location Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
creation
curator
url www.mcachicago.org

text Fashion design has always stimulated our aesthetic sensibility and intellectual curiosity, redefining the ways we think about clothes, gender, and identity. Skin Tight explores these concepts through garments, photographs, videos, and installations by a group of international designers including Boudicca, Hussein Chalayan, Martin Margiela, Walter Van Beirendonck, Raf Simons, A.F. Vandevorst, Viktor & Rolf, Bernhard Willhelm, Under Cover, and Li Edelkoort.

Skin Tight is premised on the idea that art and fashion are parallel impulses that powerfully influence and react to one another. The exhibition explores the radical innovations of designers who use clothing garments to probe the cultural construction of identity, and to challenge the perception and... [more]


images

  1 After Words, Installation Hussein Chalayan 2000, 2 Leather Corsets, A.F. Vandevorst, 3 Tabi Boots, 1989-2005, Maison Martin Margiela, 4 Installation view with leather corsets (A.F. Vandevorst) and Walter Best Off, Video still (Walter Van Beirendonck), 5 Works by Walter Van Beirendonck, 6 Works by Walter Van Beirendonck, 7 Works by Boudicca, 8 Buried Dress (A/W 1994/1995) and Airplane Dress (S/S 2000) Hussein Chalayan, 9 Airplane Dress (S/S 2000), Hussein Chalayan, 10 Under Cover Collection A/W 2004/2005

participants A.F. Vandevorst (Fashion Design)
Bernhard Willhelm (Fashion Design)
Hussein Chalayan (Fashion Design)
Maison Martin Margiela (Fashion Design)
Raf Simons (Fashion Design)
Walter Van Beirendonck (Fashion Design)
contribution


source
Flanders Fashion Institute FFI


 
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