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DYSfashional tries to represent fashion without fashion, exploring the wider meaning of the word, wandering in the nuances and the boundaries and going beyond garments or specific collections. It tries to show, and go into, the creative process in itself, interrelating it with art, through installations, videos or sculptures made by different designers such as Antonio Marras, Maison Martin Margiela, Bernhard Willhelm, Hussein Chalayan, Gaspard Yurkievich or Raf Simons, to name a few, that have represented their own imaginative worlds in the works exhibited.
There were some really interesting project like Anaesthetics, the disturbing short-film by Hussein Chalayan or Bodies in Motion, an original workshop carried out between ESMOD in Berlin and the Institut Français de la Mode in Paris but it was Le Orfanelle, the installation by Antonio Marras that looked specially beautiful to me; combining different fabrics, laces and transparencies, all wasted and frayed, his dresses hanging from the ceiling and with a light inside looked like a little mysterious tipi village. I found also quite surprising Marc Turlan’s Re-Use I-Do, a curious project that consists of several interventions in different photographs from fashion magazines and that shows how these, apparently simple, manipulations totally change the concept and meaning of the image, turning them incredibly effective in an aesthetic level as well.
After Luxemburg, Laussane and Paris, this exhibition will be in the Hause der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin only till next 17th July.
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DYSfashional pretende representar la moda sin moda, explorar el sentido más amplio de la palabra, perderse en los matices y en los límites e ir más allá de prendas y colecciones concretas. Pretende representar y ahondar en el proceso creativo en sí mismo, interrelacionarlo con el arte, mediante instalaciones, vídeos o esculturas de diferentes diseñadores como Antonio Marras, Maison Martin Margiela, Bernhard Willhelm, Hussein Chalayan, Gaspard Yurkievich o Raf Simons, entre otros, que han representado sus propios universos imaginativos a través de las obras expuestas.
Aunque había varios proyectos especialmente interesantes, como Anaesthetics, el inquietante corto de Hussein Chalayan o Bodies in Motion, un original workshop realizado entre el ESMOD de Berlín y el Institut Français de la Mode de París, me pareció especialmente bonita Le Orfanelle, la instalación de Antonio Marras; combinando diferentes tejidos, encajes y transparencias, envejecidos y desgastados, sus vestidos suspendidos del techo e iluminados en el interior parecían un misterioso poblado de tipis. También me llamó la atención Re-Use I-Do de Marc Turlan, un interesante proyecto que consta de diversas intervenciones en material fotográfico de revistas de moda y que muestra como éstas, aparentemente sencillas, manipulaciones modifican totalmente el concepto y significado de la imagen, además de resultar tremendamente efectivas a un nivel estético.
Tras pasar por Luxemburgo, Laussane y París, esta exposición estará la Hause der Kulturen der Welt de Berlín solo hasta el próximo 17 de Julio.
ha, how fun! we were there together..posted about it just recently! was interesting seeing the Mayor of Berlin, live as well! next time you have to tweet me…if you want! were you their alone!
greets!
[...] The final result totally breaks the archaic prejudices one could have regarding the collage and completely dismantles the idea according to which this technique only belongs now to one of those obsolete categories in the handicrafts scene; following a little bit the path of Marc Turlan’s pieces, included by this time last year in the exhibition DYSfashional in Berlín. [...]