Curator José Teunissen about the exhibition The Art of Fashion

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Curator José Teunissen about the exhibition The Art of Fashion

Fashion? What is shown in Paris the last twenty years, isn’t just about the clothes that you wear. At the catwalk, cultural and political issues are at stake: who are we and what are we doing with our lives?

Lector in Fashion Design José Teunissen and British Fashion Curator Judith Clark created an exhibition about the area where contemporary art and fashion meet. The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions is on view until January 10th 2010.

Both Fashion and contemporary art are products of modernism; both are focused on originality and renewal. But until the 1960’s, fashion has been esteemed completely different than art. It was temporal, commercial and superficial, whereas art was universal, valuable beyond its price and meaningful. But fashion has developed, expressing identity now, and offering insight in the relationship between the individual and its surroundings. This development is visible in the work of five contemporary fashion designers. They have accepted to design a work for the exhibition that explores the boundaries of their own discipline.