We have witnessed a paradox. Fashion killed off all conceived originality in clothing by tyrannically taking over its institutional originality."
- Roland Barthes, Dandyism and Fashion
(The New Man, ArtEZ Press, 2010)
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Fashion killed off dandyism
"Fashion is a collective imitation of regular novelty, even when it uses the alibi of expressing individuality, or as we might now say, 'personality'. It is essentially a mass phenomenon that has attracted the interest of sociologists, who see it as a good example of pure dialectic between the individual and the community. Moreover, Fashion has entered the mainstream, as evidenced in the remarkable boom in specialized women's magazines. Fashion is an institution, and nobody today still believes that it distinguishes. Now only unfashionable is distinctive. In other words, from the mass point of view, Fashion is perceived only by its opposite: if Fashion is health and morality, unfashionable is merely sickness and perversion.
We have witnessed a paradox. Fashion killed off all conceived originality in clothing by tyrannically taking over its institutional originality."
- Roland Barthes, Dandyism and Fashion
(The New Man, ArtEZ Press, 2010)
We have witnessed a paradox. Fashion killed off all conceived originality in clothing by tyrannically taking over its institutional originality."
- Roland Barthes, Dandyism and Fashion
(The New Man, ArtEZ Press, 2010)
Thursday, March 24, 2011
A new exhibition curated by my lovely tutor José Teunissen.
Art & Fashion. Between Skin and Clothing in the Kunstmuseum in Wolfburg (05.03.2011 - 07.08.2011)
The Fashion and objects by Walter Van Beirendonck, Louise Bourgeois, Hussein Chalayan, Christophe Coppens, Comme des Garçons, Salvador Dalí, Naomi Filmer, Robert Gober, Martin Margiela, Francesco Vezzoli, Viktor & Rolf, Anna-Nicole Zische and many others.
The exhibition explores the relation between art and fashion. Since the sixties art and fashion share the same avant garde feeling. From then on fashion no longer expresses power, money and social class. Instead it starts to express art and culture. Fashion and popular visual cultures – like pop art – became from the sixties on the new visual aesthetics of society. Fashion and Art became in the same way conceptual. During the eighties Japanese designers as Yohji Yamamoto and Comme des Garçons start to explore the boundaries of clothing and the meaning of fashion. Viktor & Rolf and Hussein Chalayan too started to present fashion shows in the new millenium that looked like art-installations.
The exhibition was presented before in the Museum Boijman Van Beuningen. Watch the introduction video for Art & Fashion!
http://www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de/
Art & Fashion. Between Skin and Clothing in the Kunstmuseum in Wolfburg (05.03.2011 - 07.08.2011)
The Fashion and objects by Walter Van Beirendonck, Louise Bourgeois, Hussein Chalayan, Christophe Coppens, Comme des Garçons, Salvador Dalí, Naomi Filmer, Robert Gober, Martin Margiela, Francesco Vezzoli, Viktor & Rolf, Anna-Nicole Zische and many others.
The exhibition explores the relation between art and fashion. Since the sixties art and fashion share the same avant garde feeling. From then on fashion no longer expresses power, money and social class. Instead it starts to express art and culture. Fashion and popular visual cultures – like pop art – became from the sixties on the new visual aesthetics of society. Fashion and Art became in the same way conceptual. During the eighties Japanese designers as Yohji Yamamoto and Comme des Garçons start to explore the boundaries of clothing and the meaning of fashion. Viktor & Rolf and Hussein Chalayan too started to present fashion shows in the new millenium that looked like art-installations.
The exhibition was presented before in the Museum Boijman Van Beuningen. Watch the introduction video for Art & Fashion!
http://www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de/
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