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Leiden feiert - 450 Jahre Paraden

Leiden ( NL) > 24.09.2024 - 02.03.2025

Celebrating together is of all times. Parades are the perfect form for that. They create togetherness and a shared identity. When society changes, parades change with it - for example, from elitist to democratic, from divided to united or vice versa. This makes parades a mirror of society. With the exhibition Leiden Celebrates - 450 years of Parades, Museum De Lakenhal, together with the city and the university, celebrates Leiden's rich tradition in this field - a tradition that is still alive and kicking. We also look ahead to the future.

Leiden as a parade city

Nowhere else in our country has the genesis of the Netherlands been celebrated as exuberantly as in Leiden. Ever since Leiden's Relief on October 3, 1574 and the founding of the university on February 8, 1575, parades have been organized in the city. With the exhibition Leiden Celebrates - 450 Years of Parades we look back on this rich history.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

Veranstalter/ Ort
Museum de Lakenhal
Oude Singel 32
2312 RA Leiden
Niederlande

weitere Infos: www.lakenhal.nl/en/story/450-jaar-optochten

Go As You Please – Ann-Sofie Back 1998–2018

Stockholm (S) > 08.11.2024 - 28.02.2025

Ann-Sofie Back has been called Sweden's most influential clothing designer, known for her subversive and thought-provoking fashion, often inspired by clichés about femininity, shame and failed glamor. Now, she is showcasing her collections from her entire fashion career with Go As You Please - Ann-Sofie Back 1998-2018, an exhibition that will fill Liljevalchs+ in the fall of 2024. Ann-Sofie Back graduated from Central St Martin's in 1998. Since then she has made collections under her own name until 2018. Her collections have been shown at London and Paris Fashion Weeks and sold in stores worldwide. Ann-Sofie Back's design archive has been kept almost completely intact since she started designing in 1998. Everything is saved and now takes place in Liljevalchs + as a form of prospective-retrospective for the long and acclaimed career in the fashion world. Ann-Sofie Back's work has been inspired by stereotypes of beauty, taste, femininity, social phenomena and fashion that create a tool for status, that is, the transformative properties of fashion. Her work has been shown in prominent museums and galleries around the world. The exhibition is accompanied by a book covering Ann-Sofie Back's entire career, including sketches, catwalk images, campaigns, press clippings and show invitations. It also includes various styling assignments by Ann-Sofie Back for Self Service, Purple and Dazed, among others. The catalog also includes texts from interviews and articles.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite (Foto: © Chris Moore)

Veranstalter/ Ort
Liljevalchs Konsthall
Djurgårdsvägen 60,Djurgården
Stockholm
Schweden

weitere Infos: liljevalchs.se/en/kalender/go-as-you-please-ann-sofie-back-1998-2018-2/

Circle of Water. Textilien im Fluss

St. Gallen (CH) > 08.11.2024 - 21.04.2025

Die Besucher:innen tauchen in die Welt der der Bade- und Outdoormode ein und entdecken multimedial ihre Geschichte von den Anfängen wasserdichter Kleidung bis zu heutigen Hightech-Textilien. Ausgestellt sind Kleidungsstücke und Accessoires, die speziell für Wasseraktivitäten designt wurden, wie zum Beispiel Bikinis und Skianzüge aus PET-Flaschen, abbaubare Regenjacken – und natürlich Regenschirme!
Die Ausstellung präsentiert umweltfreundliche Lösungen für wasserbezogene Kleidung in enger Kooperation mit dem Circular Lab, angesiedelt an der Universität St.Gallen, sowie Schweizer Textilfirmen. Besucher erfahren mit allen Sinnen, wie nachhaltige und wasserfreundliche Mode aussehen kann. Vorträge und Workshops von Expert:innen ergänzen die Ausstellung, um das Bewusstsein für nachhaltige Mode zu schärfen und die Besucher:innen zum Nachdenken über den Kreislauf des Wassers in der Textilwirtschaft anzuregen.

Textquelle: Pressemitteilung Textilmuseum St. Gallen

Veranstalter/ Ort
Textilmuseum St. Gallen
Vadianstrasse 2
9000 St. Gallen
Schweiz

weitere Infos: www.textilmuseum.ch/water/

SHAPE - body, fashion, identity

Tilburg (NL) > 16.11.2024 - 30.03.2025

Enter the breathtaking world of SHAPE! In this fashion exhibition, you will wander past surreal, futuristic and seductive looks inspired by the human body, and question ideals of beauty. Through these designs, explore the malleability of the body and the creation of identity through textiles and fashion. A lot has changed in a short time. Online, we are not only continuously shown the ideal beauty image, we can also create it ourselves with avatars, filters or AI. Medical and cosmetic procedures are increasingly accessible. The conversation about cultural identity, sexuality and gender roles is more open but is also met with fierce resistance. How does all this affect our self-image? And how hybrid is the human body? In SHAPE, we present conceptual, sculptural fashion and body-related art through which the designer addresses the malleability of the body. The exhibition combines well-known fashion designs, such as those by Iris van Herpen or the puffer coat worn by TV character Carrie Bradshaw, as well as digital fashion and intriguing installations created especially for this exhibition in the TextielLab.