ARRRGH Monstres de Mode / Gaîté Lyrique / Paris +De Alexander McQueen à Andrea Crews en passant par Craig Green ou Walter Van Beirendonck, Arrrgh! présente une sélection de 58 créateurs contemporains qui utilisent les figures et les expressions monstrueuses dans leurs costumes et leurs vêtements, inspirés par le design, l’animation ou encore le dessin.
Dans la lignée de l’exposition Pictoplasma, présentée en décembre 2011, les personnages contemporains issus du phénomène du character design sont devenus des créatures de mode.
Frottez-vous à ces monstres, qu’ils soient étranges, gênants, pop ou séduisants. Mêlez-vous à près de 80 créatures descendues de leurs podiums de défilés pour essayer de se fondre parmi nous. ARRRGH! questionne notre conception de la beauté et de l’identité. Libérés de toutes contraintes les créateurs nous présentent leurs réalisations les plus avant-gardistes qui brouillent les frontières entre costume et vêtement.
Liste complète des designers et artistes invités :
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN (UK), ALEX MATTSSON (SE), ALEXIS THEMISTOCLEOUS (CY), ANDREA AYALA CLOSA (ES), ANDREA CAMMAROSANO (IT), ANDREA CREWS (FR), BART HESS (NL), BAS KOSTERS (NL), BERNHARD WILLHELM (DE), BORIS HOPPEK (DE), BRONWEN MARSHALL (UK), CASSETTE PLAYA & GARY CARD (UK), CHARLIE LE MINDU (FR), CHI HE (CN), CLAIRE MICHEL (FR), CRAIG GREEN (UK), DAVID CURTIS-RING (UK), DIGITARIA (GR), DR NOKI'S NHS (UK), ERIKA MIZUNO (JP), FREEKA TET (FR), FILEP MOTWARY & MARIA MASTORI (CY & GR), GEORGE TOURLAS (GR), HELEN PRICE (UK), HENRIK VIBSKOV (DK), HEYNIEK (NL), HIDEKI SEO (JP), ISABEL MASTACHE MARTINEZ (ES), ISSEY MIYAKE & DAI FUJIWARA (JP), JEAN-PAUL LESPAGNARD (BE), JOSEFIN ARNELL (SE), KIM TRAEGER (DK), LEUTTON POSTLE (UK), LUIS LOPEZ SMITH (UK), MADS DINESEN (DK), MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA (FR), MANON KÜNDIG (CH), MARCUS TOMLINSON - GARETH PUGH (UK), MAREUNROL’S (LV), ON AURA TOUT VU (FR), PERNILLA WINBERG (SE), PAUL GRAVES (US), PICTOPLASMA (DE), PIERRE-ANTOINE VETTORELLO (FR), PIERS ATKINSON (UK), REJINA PYO (KR), RICK OWENS (US), ROZALB DE MURA (RO), SHIN MURAYAMA (JP), SOTIRIS BAKAGIANNIS - THEPERSONWHODIDTHIS (GR), TAKASHI NISHIYAMA (JP), THE BRAINSTORM DESIGN (GR), TRACY WIDDESS (CA), TOMA STENKO (RU), URBAN CAMOUFLAGE (DE), WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK (BE).
DREAM THE WORLD AWAKE / MOMU / MOMU / Antwerpen / Belgique +In the autumn of 2011, the Antwerp Fashion Museum will present the first large-scale retrospective exhibition of the work of fashion designer WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK.
Over three decades, Van Beirendonck has built up an impressive international career. He is the maverick of the Antwerp fashion scene and became primarily known for his colourful designs, his spectacular fashion shows in Paris in the 1990s under the W.&L.T. label, and the critical messages on society he proclaims in his designs. His work combines the most diverse sources of inspiration, ranging from technology, art and pop culture to ethnography.
In addition to many of the most exceptional silhouettes from Van Beirendonck’s collections, the exhibition provides an overview of the world he lives in, his sources of inspiration and his numerous other projects. By way of different themes, it takes a deeper look into the narrative character of his oeuvre, his fascination for ethnography, spiritualism and the supernatural, rituals, science fiction and technology.
The exhibition reveals how Van Beirendonck examines the frontiers of beauty, creating his own interpretations of concepts imposed by society, for example, in terms of gender and sexuality, and how he incorporates topical themes, including ecology, Aids or mass consumerism into his collections and presentations. The exhibition also investigates the diverse projects beyond the catwalk, in which Walter van Beirendonck has participated, with special focus on his costumes for the U2 PopMart tour in 1997. Walter van Beirendonck has moreover collaborated with fashion photographer Nick Knight/SHOWstudio.com, stylist Simon Foxton and GQ Style UK to develop a new photography and video project created especially for this exhibition.
Walter Van Beirendonck: Dream the world awake runs from September 14th, 2011 until February 19th, 2012. The exhibition catalogue will be published in collaboration with Lannoo Publishers (Dutch) & ACC (English), hardcover, 240 pages.
