THE ARCHITECT AND THE FASHION DESIGNER
NEW YEAR, new fashion happening to start the countdown to - this time, courtesy
of one Alexander
McQueen
and friends. McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Hussein Chalayan are just some of
the world-class British designers representing the fashion industry in a new
exhibition, SKIN+BONES: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture,
which opens at London's Somerset House next April. Focussing on the "visual and
conceptual ideas that unite fashion and architecture, dating from the Eighties
to the present day", the show will feature around 200 works - among them iconic
garments, three-dimensional architectural models and film footage arranged in a
series of themes such as shelter, identity, folding and draping - within a new
installation designed by Eva Jiricna in the house's grounds. Boudicca, Comme des
Garcons, Martin Margiela, Viktor & Rolf, Junya Watanabe, and Yohji Yamamoto
are also involved, while Zaha Hadid, David Adjaye, Frank Gehry and Thomas
Heatherwick are flying the flag for the architects. SKIN+BONES: Parallel
Practices in Fashion and Architecture runs from April 24 to August 10 2008
at Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA; for more information, visit www.somersethouse.org.
(December 31 2007, AM)
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