Dressing the body. Silhouettes and fashion (1550-2015)

Barcelona (ES) > Dauerausstellung

Since ancient times, human beings have altered the shape and appearance of their bodies by means of hairstyles, jewellery, tattoos and especially their clothes.
In every age, the different ways of dressing are intimately connected with moral, social and aesthetic codes. Fashion imposes standards of beauty; silhouettes and volumes are modified and nature gives way to artifice. Clothes change the body's proportions and alter the wearer's relationship with physical space and other people. The exhibition Dressing the Body sets out to show how clothes modify the appearance of the body by way of actions that have alternately tended to compress it and liberate it, from the sixteenth century to the present.

Textquelle: Museumswebsite
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Veranstalter/Ort
The Museu del Disseny de Barcelona (Barcelona Design Museum)
Pl. de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38 08018 Barcelona (ES)

weitere Infos: www.museudeldisseny.cat/en/exhibition/dressing-body-silhouettes-and-fashion-1550-2015