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IFS: Intellectual Fashion Show 2016.
Multi media responses to June Black’s 1959 Metaphorical Costumes
soft cover
112 full colour pages
380x280mm
RRP $30
$30.00 NZD
 
New Zealand Fashion Museum
48 Tutanekai St
Auckland 1021
New Zealand
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INTELLECTUAL FASHION SHOW 2016 MAGAZINE

The Intellectual Fashion Show publication takes the form of an offbeat fashion magazine including editorial style photographs of the garments and art objects in the exhibition. Styled by Karen Indebitzen-Waller, with photography by Fraser Chatham at Kingsize Studios, the publication features literary works, reproductions of related original art by June Black, the original show catalogue, essays by the curators and photos from the Gala Opening.

A large format limited edition catalogue of the Intellectual Fashion Show 2016, IFS, is available now. An elegant and poetic tour de force it is guaranteed to become “an inspiration dispenser” for anyone with an appreciation of the power of sartorial style.

Launched last weekend the IFS Publication takes the form of an offbeat fashion magazine including editorial style photographs of the garments and art objects in the exhibition. Styled by Karen Indebitzen-Waller, photographer and stylist who recently featured in Vogue Italia, with atmospheric lighting and photography by Fraser Chatham at Kingsize Studios, the publication also features literary works, reproductions of related original art by June Black, a facsimile of the original Intellectual Fashion Show catalogue, curator's essays and photos from the Gala Opening. This stunning large format limited edition publication is available through
the NZ Fashion Museum online shop, Blikfang and independent booksellers.
 
IFS features work by over 60 designers and artists including Evan Woodruffe, Eve de Castro Robinson, Fraser Crowe, Helen Schamroth, Horst Kiechle, James Dobson [Jimmy D], Judy Darragh, Karen Inderbitzen-Waller & Delphine Avril Planqueel, Liz Findlay [Zambesi], Margi Robertson [Nom*D], Margo
Barton, Peter Madden, Peter Wells, Phillipa Blair, Richard Maloy, Shona Tawhiao, Toby Raine.
 
About the Intellectual Fashion Show
Open 8 October - 5 November 2016, Saturdays 12-4pm, Tuesday to Friday 10am-5pm
At the Gus Fisher Gallery in Auckland, Free entry
 
In March 1959, artist June Black explored ideas of 'the self' in an exhibition titled, Intellectual Fashion Show. Bringing together her paintings, ceramic wall sculptures and a provocative commentary she presented the concept of an 'intellectual fashion house'. The aim of its imagined director, M. Henri Folli, was "to dress the mind away from commonplace associations…".
 
June framed fashion as an armour to protect the self from the rigours of daily life, social hypocrisy and cultural expectations. And over the course of her life and writing she devised a whole wardrobe of metaphorical costumes.
 
More than 60 years later, the New Zealand Fashion Museum and Blikfang Gallery are revisiting June’s original ideas with an exhibition at the Gus Fisher Gallery in Auckland. The aim of the Intellectual Fashion Show 2016 is to further advance M. Henri Folli's most worthy cause, offering participants a platform to experiment with the expressive potential of what we wear to fashion the body and the mind and to explore the rich complexity of the real-self.
 
The exhibition curators have invited more than 50 fashion designers, milliners, jewellers, visual artists, poets, ceramic artists and other creatives - including established names Liz Findlay, WORLD, Margo Barton, Fran Allison, Peter Madden, Louise Rive, Karen Inderbitzen Waller - to select one of June’s metaphorical costumes and explore the idea of the transformative power of dress.
 
To imagine what a 'costume to be worn over a heavy heart' might look like? Or a 'hat for elevated thoughts'? And what makes for a 'costume in which to invite undiluted pleasure'? Or consider these:
- Costume to get onto one’s high horse
- Costume to face the world of the commonplace
- Costume to be worn over a heavy heart
- Costume to flaunt tedious advice and swing off into bright danger
- Costume to joyfully accept the success of others without a sigh
- Costume to extend exalted moments
- Costume to face the ultimate discomfit of the guillotine, the gallows or the dentist
 
The New Zealand Fashion Museum is for anyone with a love of fashion, heritage, innovation and creativity. With no fixed abode other than this online address, it is a museum dedicated to the curation of New Zealand’s rich fashion past, making it relevant for the present and future. Established in 2010 as a Charitable Trust, it records and shares the stories of the people, objects and photographs that have contributed to the development of New Zealand's unique fashion identity, making them visible and accessible to a broad audience through pop-up exhibitions, publications and our online museum. The Fashion Museum undertakes its own research and also draws together the collective knowledge held in our public institutions and by many individuals all around the country who are invited to contribute. 

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Posted 1 November 2016

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