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Photo credit: Eugen Sakhnenko
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DESIGN EXCHANGE
POLITICS OF FASHION | FASHION OF POLITICS
18/9/2014-25/1/2015
Politics of Fashion | Fashion of Politics, guest curated by international fashion icon Jeanne Beker with DX curator Sara Nickelson, explores how fashion is a mirror of society by highlighting how clothing has been used as a tool for communicating identity and political expression. For decades, fearless and passionate designers have used this discipline as a tool to express their own ideologies and create wardrobes for like-minded people.
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Posted 7 October 2014
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When hemlines and fashion lines ignite international discussion, provocative and fearless leaders emerge. Margaret Trudeau made headlines in 1977 when she wore a calf-length white dress adorned with pearls to a formal White House dinner, startling the evening-gowned ladies. Showing off her femininity and desire to be sexy, she challenged the expectations of dress for wives of politicians and added more fuel to the media fire already surrounding the free-spirited, out-spoken prime minister’s wife. When Stella McCartney designed a faux fur jacket made of plastic, glass and linen, it stood out for its innovative use of resources and for the material it purposefully omitted – fur. What’s more, the jacket provided consumers with a means to express how they felt about the fashion world’s use of animal skins.
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Visionary works from the archives of Hussein Chalayan, Jeremy Scott, Moschino, PETA, Rad Hourani, Christopher Raeburn and Jean Charles de Castelbajac will be on view alongside items loaned by collectors of Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, Stella McCartney, Mary Quant and Rudi Gernreich.
Design Exchange presents this provocative topic by taking visitors through a thematic journey in a visually striking environment co-created by acclaimed designer, Jeremy Laing.
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Photo credit: Eugen Sakhnenko
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This September Design Exchange recognizes fashion as a powerful tool of expression by partnering with Canadian fashion icon Jeanne Beker and presenting sponsor Mantella Corporation to unveil: POLITICS OF FASHION | FASHION OF POLITICS. Highly respected in the industry and regarded as one of the most powerful Canadian fashion journalists, Beker curates the timely exhibition with DX curator Sara Nickleson. Drawing from Beker’s knowledge and experience, the duo has collected some of the fashion industry’s most provocative, bold and subversive pieces spanning the 1960s to present.
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