YOHJI YAMAMOTO EXHIBITION

Last saturday I was back in London and I decided to go to Victoria and Albert Museum, the world's greatest museum of art and Design. At the museum where several exhibits and one of them was Yohji Yamamoto. I had never been to an exhibition of this ground breaking designer, so I was very curious.

Yamamoto became internationally renowned in the early eighties for challenging traditional notions of fashion by designing garments that seemed oversized and unfinished, that played with ideas of gender or with fabrics not normally used in fashion. Yamamoto also had an unusual pattern cutting, knowledge of fashion history and sense of humour. 

The exhibition shows over 60 creations (women's and menswear) and a multi-media timeline that reveals Yamamoto's wider creative output.

I really liked the exhibition because you had te change to see the garments up close, they really took enough space between te garments so you could walk around it. I really zoomed in to the details of his garments and I was impressed by his use of textile and silhouettes. 

I recommed this exhibition to anyone who has not seen it yet. The exhibition will last untill 10th of July, so there is still time to see the work of Yohji Yamamoto..

“An artist is somebody who creates things 

..that you don’t need to have”

-Qoute by Yohji Yamamoto

MOMU EXHIBITION

PART 2:

Last friday I went to the exibition ‘UNRAVEL’ in the MoMu fashion museum in Antwerp. It was very interesting to see how we still use knitwaer after so many years, so yes we could say that knitwaer is a continuing source of inspiration for the designers in the fashionworld. 

The exibition shows the important decades of knitwear in fashion by demostrating knitwear’s popularity both on and off the catwalk, and unraveling the changing status of the relationship between knitwear and fashion. It was very interesting to see how the various roles knitwear has played in social and fashion (r)evolutions.

For the scenography of the exhibition and the knitted items in the entrance hall, MOMU worked together with partners from the knitwearindustry. Designers of the so-called 'Phat Knits' (large knitted designelements), Bauke Knottnerus from Rotterdam, created some new and unique pieces for the scenography of the exhibition: an enlarged knitwear in the entrance and an enlarged seat-element. 

Sculptural Knitwear:

From left to right designers:Yohji Yamamoto 1998-99, Maison Martin Margiela 2008-09, Romain Brau 2007, Sandra Backlund 2007-08, Yohji Yamamoto 1995-96, Kevin Kramp 2009, Romeo Gigli 1991-92 en Sandra Backlund 2008-09.

Italian Luxury-Industry:

     Photo 1:Benetton 2006-07 and Saverio Palatella 2009_Photo 2:Fondazione Gianfranco Ferre 2002-03,Missoni 1971-72 and Krizia Zoo 1986.

The two dresses in the front:Prada 2010-11 and Missoni 2011

Unravel:

from left to right: Iben Hoi 2009, Raf Simons 1998-99 and Comme des Garcons 2006.

Detail from the men sweater from Raf Simons

(All Images created by Johan van Beek)

If you haven't been to UNRAVEL don't worry, the exhibition will be there till 14/08/2011. And after seeing the exhibition you can enjoy shopping around the Nationalestraat or on the Meir. 

Also good to know is, after UNRAVEL the next exhibition will be about Walter van Beirendonck (one of the Antwerp six)..