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Beeldgalerij 3: Zaal 1
Haute Couture Junkies, Roxy, 1991. Photo Cleo Campert
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WHAT WOULD A MUSEUM ABOUT FASHION IN THE NETHERLANDS LOOK LIKE?
13/9/2015-8/5/2016
Het Nieuwe Instituut will be transformed into a Temporary Fashion Museum, exploring the phenomenon of fashion in all its surprising forms with an extensive programme of exhibitions, installations, performances and events.
Many Dutch museums include fashion within their collections but there has never been a national fashion museum. Over a period of eight months Het Nieuwe Instituut will explore the possibilities of such an institution by transforming itself into a fashion museum. The entire building will be utilised for this temporary experiment.
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Posted 10 July 2015
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Innovation in fashion contrasts starkly with other disciplines in which innovation is viewed as synonymous with technological progress. Fashion has found its own model of renewal by using the past as an endless source of inspiration for the future. Reason enough to allow the past, present and future to be interwoven in the Temporary Fashion Museum. In contrast to the conventional model of a museum, which conserves objects and thus freezes time, the Temporary Fashion Museum will approach time as fashion does: as a fluid and flowing phenomenon and a source for speculation.
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Dressed by Architects – Verrassende vondsten uit de collectie #5 (4)
Alberts en Van Huut. Design for La Defence, Paris. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut
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What is the current state of fashion? What issues preoccupy designers right now? How do they speculate about the future? Which issues determine current developments in fashion? In addition to exploring the fashion design and production process the Temporary Fashion Museum will also examine the role of the user. It will give visitors an opportunity to engage with fashion in different ways: from debating about and reflecting upon on essential issues to trying on and buying clothes.
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Reality and alternatives
The Temporary Fashion Museum will also explore the occasionally shocking reality of the fashion system. The negative social and ecological impact of clothing production is the starting point for an examination of the usually unseen darker side of fashion. Fashion designers Alexander van Slobbe and Francisco van Benthum respond to this theme with their project HACKED, in which they use the existing production chain of the fast-fashion industry to create new opportunities for designers and consumers alike. Under the name Van Slobbe Van Benthum they set to work on the remnants and overproduction of this sector. They will present the findings of their research in an extensive display with critical commentary.
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Network
To curate and realise the Temporary Fashion Museum, artistic director Guus Beumer has called upon his personal network of people who since the early 1990s have played a crucial role in attracting international attention for Dutch fashion, including fashion designers Francisco van Benthum and Alexander van Slobbe, art director Jop van Bennekom, fashion theorist José Teunissen, architect Herman Verkerk, journalist Georgette Koning, stylist Marjo Kranenborg, designer Conny Groenewegen, architect Rianne Makkink, and artist and designer Pascale Gatzen. This network is augmented by dozens of designers, stylists, journalists, photographers and theorists.
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