Chalayan spring/summer 2017

Hussein Chalayan Teams Up With Intel for S/S 2017 collection

Designer Hussein Chalayan partnered with Intel to bring wearable technology to his spring/summer 2017 fashion week show. Five models walked the runway alongside visual projections that showed their stress levels on the walls. All of it was made possible by vital information sent through the wearable tech they sported on the runway.

 “Only with technology can you create new things in fashion. Everything else has been done,” he has previously said.

Intel has previously partnered with Opening Ceremony and Oakley. Chalayan is no stranger to experimenting with how his clothing can engage with technology. In the past, he's created looks that changed shape with the use microchips and animatronics, made dresses embedded with LEDs, and once created a coffee table that turned into a skirt.

According to Intel, the goal of the project, was to "illustrate the potential of future integrations of fashion and technology by bringing innovative concepts and aspirations to life."

http://store.chalayan.com

Utopian Bodies – Fashion Looks Forward

Liljevalchs konsthall 25 September – 7 February 2016 

Liljevalchs konsthall’s new extraordinary exhibition "Utopian Bodies – Fashion Looks Forward maps out imaginable futures for the adorned body. How can fashion be harnessed to create a better future? How does fashion relate to the human body, to us as individuals and groups, and the world around us?

Presenting fashion’s possibilities and highlighting human creativity, the exhibition aims to inspire visitors to search for their good place, their vision of the future. Arranged over eleven galleries - Sustainability, Change, Technology, Craft & form, Craft & Colour, Resistance & society, Resistance & beauty, Solidarity, Memory, Gender Identity and Love - the exhibition presents a snapshot of what is possible today and where we can be in the future.
The exhibition, which consists of over 200 objects, images and videos, invites visitors to embark on a captivating journey between different worlds. The individually designed galleries are inspired by various utopian ideas – some realized and others not. But above all, they highlight the social promise of technology and creativity.

Some of the highlights include a Dior couture ensemble with a detailed floral pattern from the spring/ summer collection 2013, representing the new direction of the legendary house under Raf Simons’ creative leadership; Viktor & Rolf’s look from Van Gogh Girl couture spring/summer 2015 collection, as well as their iconic “Hana Bedtime Story” ensemble from 2005; Hussein Chalayan’s ground-breaking table skirt (Afterwords 2000) and moulded plastic dress (Inertia 2009); Walter Van Beirendonck’s Stop Racism headdress from Crossed Crocodiles autumn/winter 2014; Issey Miyake’s innovative King & Queen installation from the spring/summer 1999 A-POC collection which was already then made with zero-waste; and Jólan van der Wiel’s and Iris Van Herpen’s magnetic and 3D-printed shoes.
This show also includes several garments from one of the world’s largest private collections of Alexander McQueen, Prada’s sparkling rainbow look from spring/summer 2014 and a look from Rick Owen’s autumn/winter 2015 collection that caused a media stir due to the strategically cut holes revealing the models’ genitals.

Chalayan AW 2014/15

It is no secret that I have always been a fan of Hussein Chalayan.
His collections are always intruiging expression of conceptual approach and clothing design.
His combines refined and elegant tailoring with innovative cuts and idea's, such as the fake nail's as the new paillettes used in this collection.

http://chalayan.com

Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 in V&A Museum

Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 
19 May 2012 - 6 January 2013

From spring 2012 the V&A celebrates the opening of the newly renovated Fashion Galleries with an exhibition of beautiful ballgowns, red carpet evening dresses and catwalk showstoppers. Displayed over two floors, Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 will feature more than sixty designs for social events such as private parties, royal balls, state occasions and opening nights.
The exhibition will cover over sixty years of a strong British design tradition that continues to flourish. Eveningwear from the V&A’s vast collection, by designers including Victor Stiebel, Zandra Rhodes, Jonathan Saunders and Hussein Chalayan, will be on show alongside dresses fresh from the catwalk shows of Alexander McQueen, Giles Deacon, Mary Katrantzou, Erdem and Jenny Packham.

A selection of royal ballgowns will be on display, including a Norman Hartnell gown designed for Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Princess Diana’s ‘Elvis Dress’ designed by Catherine Walker and gowns worn by today’s young royals. Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 will also include dresses worn by actresses and celebrities including Elizabeth Hurley, Bianca Jagger and Sandra Bullock, and a stunning metallic leather dress created especially for the exhibition by innovative designer Gareth Pugh.
http://www.vam.ac.uk

marijehellwich strong debut at Amsterdam Fashion Week

There was loads of young talent during the 17th edition of Amsterdam Fashion Week. Marije Hellwich is one of these brave talents. It was her debut on the fashion week.
Together with Tony Marcus Sacharias she was part of the Fashion Week LAB show at AFW which promotes up and coming design talent. She showed a mixed, men and women's collection, based around the concept 'packed'. The collection consists of beautiful silhouettes, materials and details.

The collection ‘packed’ represents a reality where it seems like the identity of beings and things is taken over by covers while at the same time it displays and objectifies the content it holds. The show served as a preview to the diverse products marijehellwich will create in the near future.
It proved to be a unique opportunity to get some insight into her approach of collecting, connecting and creating.




Along with the show her concept book ‘packed’ was presented and handed out to visitors. This book portrays the authentic research method which is typical for marijehellwich.

Marije Hellwich (Ommen, 1984) graduated in 2010 from Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. Her graduate collection ‘Public/Private/Public’ was selected and shown during AFW’s LICHTING 2010.
She gained experience by interning and working for Maison Martin Margiela, Monique van Heist and Hussein Chalayan. With her label she aims to become a noteworthy  conceptual designer. Her strong debut on the Amsterdam Fashion Week is for sure a step in the right direction.


All images are by Peter Stigter

http://marijehellwich.com/

'Le regard de personae' by Malou Swinnen

From October 27 2011 till January 8 2012 Malou Swinnen exhibits the new series "Le regard de personae" at the MMH (Fashion Museum Hasselt)
Malou Swinnen (b. 1944, Neerpelt) lives and works in Hasselt. As an artist she enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad and her pictures are regularly exhibited. They are also part of several collections: Photography Musea (Antwerp and Charleroi), the Ministry of the Flemish Community, the Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris), and various private collections. The fascination for the face, skin, the pose, the look and attributes are constants in her work.
In 2010 she was invited by the Art Bank for artistic research. In connection with their exclusive collection of textiles and accessories she re-portraited the looks and the genre and in that way gets the series "Personae" (1995) a new follow-up.  This collection shows pieces from designers like Raf Simons, Hussein Chalayan, Martin Margiela, Walter Van Beirendonck, Ann Demeulemeester, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo and A.F  Vandevorst.

This may be your perfect opportunity to see PRINTS! if you have missed it.
http://brankopopovic.blogspot.com/2011/06/prints-in-fashion-and-costume-history.html

http://www.modemuseumhasselt.be

Black and White for spring/summer 2012

Hussein Chalayan

Hussein Chalayan

Hussein Chalayan

There were many black and white looks presented for spring/summer 2012. I like it!

Limi Feu

HAUS OF Ü feat. NYMPH by Lady GaGa

HAUS OF Ü feat. NYMPH 



LADY GAGA YOÜ AND I 
HAUS OF Ü FEAT. NYMPH 
DIRECTED BY INEZ AND VINOODH 
CREATIVE DIRECTOR LADY GAGA 
FASHION DIRECTOR NICOLA FORMICHETTI 
FASHION BY HUSSEIN CHALAYAN 
CINEMATOGRAPHY TODD HEATER 
LIGHTING TECHNICIAN JODOKUS DRIESSEN / EDITOR OTTO ARSENAULT 
MAKE UP VAL GARLAND / HAIR FREDERIC ASPIRAS 

Encounter with textile designer Joelle Boers

Encounter with textile designer Joelle Boers who just graduated from Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht


Joelle Boers next to her work

-Can you tell us something about your graduation project and collection?

As a child I was always fascinated by nature, that’s why I was inspired for my graduation concept by the seabirds around the “plastic soup” area’s in the Pacific Ocean, which are threatened with extinction, because of all the garbage, plastics and other toxic material that ruins the ocean and the life within,
Using my own photography, detailed with old plastics, metals and other materials, I developed my own kind of “garbage”, old wasted things that took my attention, and used them in my prints.
In my work I play with a mix of geometric shapes and weird material in a bold way. My final collection consists a book of digital printed silk fashion fabrics, a wearable fashion collection based on digital designs mixed with other materials, fashion objects and techniques.

Paris Fashion Week F/W 2011/12

Gareth Pugh





pictures by Peter Stigter / http://www.teampeterstigter.com/

Rick Owens



pictures by Peter Stigter / http://www.teampeterstigter.com/

Gaspard Yurkievich




Josephus Thimister




pictures by Peter Stigter / http://www.teampeterstigter.com/

Hussein Chalayan


Lanvin

picture by Peter Stigter / http://www.teampeterstigter.com/

Haider Ackermann

picture by Peter Stigter / http://www.teampeterstigter.com/

Balenciaga


Dior fashion house employees acknowledge applause at the end of the Fall-Winter 2012 ready to wear collection.
Bye Bye Galliano.

picture by Peter Stigter / http://www.teampeterstigter.com/

spring/summer 2011 collections

Gaspard Yurkievich s/s2011


Maison martin Margiela s/s 2011








Damir Doma s/s11


Givenchy s/s11


Hussein Chalayan s/s11


Kenzo 40 years anniversary

Hussein Chalayan Spring/Summer 2011 Womenswear

http://www.vogue.com/videos/hussein-chalayan-spring-2011/

source: http://www.husseinchalayan.com

The Art of Fashion

'The Art of Fashion'

With this inspiring exhibition Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is exploring the boundaries of fashion.

I was familiar with most of the works presented in this exhibition, but it was a pleasure to see everything in this context and to discover artists new to me such as Nick Cave.

http://www.boijmans.nl/en/