{"id":52648,"date":"2017-06-01T15:38:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=52648"},"modified":"2017-06-01T15:38:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:38:15","slug":"fashion-after-fashion-exhibition-museum-of-arts-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/fashion-after-fashion-exhibition-museum-of-arts-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"The Exhibition Spelling out the End of Fashion as We Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTraditionally a world inhabited by Amazonian beauties with svelte builds touting unrealistically lavish\u00a0lifestyles, fashion has always been an industry defined by hard-to-achieve standards\u00a0and less than stellar ethics. These days, however, young designers are redefining the rules of the game by rethinking the bodies they clothe as well as the societal implications of their work. Curated by Ilari Laamanen and Hazel Clark and currently on display at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, \u201cfashion after Fashion<\/a>\u201d differentiates these two concepts with a mere capitalisation of the letter F.<\/p>\n

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“fashion with the lowercase f communicates socially inclined, artistically ambitious and collaborative practices” \u2013 Ilari Laamanen<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cFashion with the uppercase F means celebrity and star designer driven, product-based system that produces out-of-reach ideals,\u201d explains co-curator Ilari Laamanen. \u201cWhereas fashion with the lowercase f communicates socially inclined, artistically ambitious and collaborative practices.\u201d Placing focus on the more contemporary of the two, Laamanen and Clark have created an exhibition of site-specific installations featuring work from young designers including Eckhaus Latta, Ryohei Kawanishi, Henrik Vibskov and more.
\n\u201cThe idea of the exhibition is to treat fashion as an expanded field of practice, and not to focus on the obvious,\u201d says Laamanen. \u201cWe highlight the idea of fashion being connected to disciplines of installation and video art, performance and broader contexts of design \u2013 as these sensibilities have been typically overlooked in the museum context.\u201d
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“Martin Margiela and Rei Kawakubo are two designers who built their labels in uncompromising ways, governed by concept and atemporality” \u2013\u00a0Ilari Laamanen<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In one installation created by SSAW Magazine directors Tuomas Laitinen and Chris Vidal Tenomaa, a bedroom is plastered floor to ceiling in editorial clippings, save for a few gaps revealing walls in the unmistakable shade of millennial pink. By referencing the safe haven of teenage fashion addicts worldwide, \u201cfashion after Fashion\u201d places emphasis on the industry\u2019s emotional stronghold of young people. \u201cThe evolution of my teenage style went from grunge and flannels to hip-hop, trip hop and oversize everything, leading up to industrial looks paired with Dr. Martens and all-black outfits,” says Laamanen. \u201cClothing was definitely a strong means of self-expression for me at the time, especially as I was not an especially outspoken teenager.\u201d Whether it was Vogue or NME, the end results were always the same, with magazines serving as a guide to style for adolescents \u2013 and SSAW\u2019s installation is the ultimate tribute to this phenomenon.
\nEarlier this month, Fashion\u2019s biggest drivers came together for the Met Gala, which chose to honour the genius of Comme des Gar\u00e7ons and its creator, Rei Kawakubo. There, industry figureheads sat alongside reality TV stars-turned-supermodels to toast the forward thinking Japanese designer so often considered an antidote to fashion\u2019s commercial, product-based approach. Despite this widespread interest from the individuals perpetuating a culture that \u201cfashion after Fashion\u201d puts under scrutiny, Laamanen views CDG as one of the most influential labels paving the way for a more progressive definition of fashion.
\n\u201cMartin Margiela and Rei Kawakubo are two designers who built their labels in uncompromising ways, governed by concept and atemporality, not trends and profit,\u201d he says. \u201cWhile their work is highly successful in terms of the market, their design philosophies are always original and ahead of the curve. Their work is based on questioning, not conformity, and this can be seen in both designers\u2019 broader bodies of work, including installations and ad campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“There is a growing need for genuine, real people in the industry, and many young practitioners are already on this path” \u2013 Ilari Laamanen<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In an industry fuelled by following trends, maybe the Met\u2019s celebration of one of fashion\u2019s biggest oddballs signals a change to come. \u201cThe Fashion system has to change, as does any other system that is overheated by the laws of economics,\u201d urges Laamanen. The idea of consuming and hiding behind highly expensive \u2013 or alternatively, dubiously cheap \u2013 goods is banal.\u201d
\nWhen asked whether he thinks we\u2019ll ever really move on from Fashion, Laamanen expresses optimism towards the future. \u201cBased on what\u2019s happening around us in terms of climate change, social injustice and politics at large, I really hope so. We are already witnessing many of the traditional boundaries and categories \u2013 such as gender binaries or distinctions between fashion and other creative practices \u2013 being blurred and questioned. I\u2019m sure that fashion will become even more interdisciplinary, as the means of community building, communication and visual culture at large are transforming dramatically. There is no more space for growth \u2013 but there is a growing need for genuine, real people in the industry, and many young practitioners are already on this path.\u201d
\nRest in peace Fashion, but it\u2019s time for you to go.
\n\u201cfashion after Fashion<\/a>” is on display at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York until 6 August 2017<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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