The last day in Rio I visited the MAC Niteroi Museum designed by Oscar Niemeyer. Belgian artist Charif Benhelima was showing his Polaroids exhibition there, curated by Christophe De Jaeger from Bozar in Brussels. The museum s impressive structure and architecture worked well with the show. On arrival in São Paulo I got a technical [...]
The first part of my Brazilian tour of fashion conferences is now finished. The Brazilian organization Senac Ceara kindly invited me to open Dragaõ Fashion Week in Fortaleza, in the north of Brazil. It was great to speak in front of so many fashion enthusiasts who knew a lot about Antwerp fashion! Attending the local [...]
MoMu is proud that the International Woolmark Prize 2013 went to Christian Wijnants, following in the footsteps op people like Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld. The award ceremony was presented at an event last Saturday evening during London Fashion Week. The judging panel included oa Victoria Beckham, Donatella Versace, Diane von Furstenberg, Franca Sozzani [...]
In their quest for couture dresses made with silk from the Swiss Abraham archive for the newt MoMu exhibition in March, the MoMu curators went to the Yves Saint Laurent archives in Paris. A couture archive with over 5.000 dresses, a Holy Grail at the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, all stored in [...]
The French ‘fête des Catherinettes’, a special day for women of 25 (or older) who are still unmarried, inspired John Galliano and Stephen Jones to collaborate on a yellow and green tule dress with festive hat for the Dior Haute Couture A/W 2005-06 show.
MoMu’s Karen Van Godtsenhoven reports from the symposium on camouflage at the Royal Military Academy.
Iris Van Herpen discusses the silhouettes featured in Black and explains why black is her favourite colour.
Helena Lumelsky is convinced fashion shouldn’t be too serious. So she created a hand-made shadow puppet theatre for you to play with. You’ll stroll around 20th century Paris, attend glamourous black tie parties and discover black couture by Rei Kawakubo, Azzedine Alaïa and many more.
At the ‘Black’ symposium, Natalie Ortega Saez discussed the technology of black dyeing, Frieda Sorber gave insight into the different levels of mourning dress, Bruno Blondé talked about black in Antwerp household interiors, Wim Mertens presented new research on French magazines, Lou Taylor explained the different stages of mourning, Emmanuelle Dirix unraveled the little black dress myth, Karen Van Godtsenhoven showed rebellious and avant-garde black, and Helena Lumelsky shared her passion for black.
MoMu organises an academic symposium featuring experts from within the fashion and art world, presenting new research on the colour black. Helena Lumelsky will talk about the use of black in her collections.
