The House of Viktor & Rolf
This summer Barbican Art Gallery will showcase the work of radical Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf18 June 2008 - 14 September 2008Barbican Art Gallery
This summer Barbican Art Gallery showcases the work of radical Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf. This will be the first time in the United Kingdom that an exhibition has been devoted to this highly influential duo. Over the past 15 years Viktor & Rolf have taken the fashion world by storm with their particular blend of cool irony and surreal beauty.
The exhibition charts their career to date within the context of a specially commissioned installation that will dominate the entire Gallery. Highlights will include pieces from Atomic Bomb, 1998–99, featuring dramatic mushroom cloud-like cushioned necklines and Russian Doll, 1999–2000, in which a single model was painstakingly dressed by the designers themselves in front of a catwalk audience in 10 independent layers, in an experience reminiscent of performance art.
The exhibition is accompanied by a book published by Barbican Art Gallery and Merrell. Designed by Fuel, this sumptuously illustrated hardback book, comprising of 256 pages with over 200 full colour photographic images (some never seen before), will be the most comprehensive volume published on Viktor & Rolf’s work to date. Price: £35 and will be available in the Art Gallery Shop on level 3.
To learn more: http://www.barbican.org.uk/
This summer Barbican Art Gallery will showcase the work of radical Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf18 June 2008 - 14 September 2008Barbican Art Gallery
This summer Barbican Art Gallery showcases the work of radical Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf. This will be the first time in the United Kingdom that an exhibition has been devoted to this highly influential duo. Over the past 15 years Viktor & Rolf have taken the fashion world by storm with their particular blend of cool irony and surreal beauty.
The exhibition charts their career to date within the context of a specially commissioned installation that will dominate the entire Gallery. Highlights will include pieces from Atomic Bomb, 1998–99, featuring dramatic mushroom cloud-like cushioned necklines and Russian Doll, 1999–2000, in which a single model was painstakingly dressed by the designers themselves in front of a catwalk audience in 10 independent layers, in an experience reminiscent of performance art.
The exhibition is accompanied by a book published by Barbican Art Gallery and Merrell. Designed by Fuel, this sumptuously illustrated hardback book, comprising of 256 pages with over 200 full colour photographic images (some never seen before), will be the most comprehensive volume published on Viktor & Rolf’s work to date. Price: £35 and will be available in the Art Gallery Shop on level 3.
To learn more: http://www.barbican.org.uk/
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