Monica di Vidi reviews the illustrious career of famed French designer Thierry Mugler, looking at his most iconic designs, celebrity costumes, and the most recent exhibition of his work at the Kunsthal Rotterdam.
All tagged Exhibition Review
Review: A Tale of Two Quants
More frequently than one might imagine, multiple fashion exhibitions on similar topics pop up around the same time. While it is not unusual for trends in fashion exhibitions to occur, it is somewhat unusual for two museums in the same city to be running concurrent exhibitions on almost the exact same subject.
Review: Atelier E. B.: Passer-By
Passer-By tackled an issue with which consumers come into contact every day: the multitude of ways that clothing can be displayed through artistic, kitschy, and historical contexts, and how this changes the way the clothing is interpreted.
Review: The Krystyna Campbell-Pretty Fashion Gift
The Fashion Gift is one of those sprawling exhibitions with so many items it’s almost in danger of undercutting their individual value. There are a few moments when you might be forgiven for thinking you’ve been trapped inside a fashion labyrinth.
Review: Gray Area: Authenticity, Value, and Subversion in Fashion
Gray Area uses technology, counterfeits, and even a pair of socks from Diet Prada to illustrate how many of the conversations we have within the field of fashion studies are not cut and dried but rather an intricately layered and varied dialogue.
Exhibition Review: Viktor & Rolf: Fashion Artists 25 Years
Based on the exhibition of 2016 at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and curated by Thierry-Maxime Loriot, Viktor & Rolf: Fashion Artists 25 Years investigates the duo’s conception of “wearable art.”
Exhibition Review: Margiela the Hermes Years
The exhibition argues that a singular DNA weaves its way through these two branches of Margiela’s creative career, reconciling the apparent disjuncture between Margiela’s identity as a rebel against the fashion system and a designer for one of French fashion’s most patrimonial houses.
Exhibition Review: Margiela/Galliera 1989-2009
Visible structures and assemblages like ladders and plastic coverings litter the exhibition route, and remind the visitor of the exhibition’s temporariness; it is a place in transition and pregnant with possibility.
Exhibition Review: Azzedine Alaïa: "Je Suis Couturier"
The way the garments were displayed did not feel like a shop window as retrospectives often do. The lighting and display lent a cinematic feeling to the exhibition, especially with pieces such as the black column dress with a deep décolleté reminiscent of red carpet looks of eras passed.
Exhibition Review: Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion
Originally curated by Sarah Schleuning from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia and Mark Wilson and Sue-an van der Zijpp from the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion was a focused look at the designer’s work since 2008.