A little late in the game as the exhibition has been on since the 24th April but Skin and Bones, an exhibition curated by MOCA, which I talked about yonks ago last year is finally making its final pitstop at the Embankment Galleries at Somerset House here in London and it's here to stay until the 10th August 2008. Of course I was peeved that we had to wait so long but grateful that it made its way over here as it is indeed very well curated. The link between fashion and architecture and the design approaches that certain fashion designers have very decisively taken or even subconsciously so are well highlighted here.
The exhibition itself is very well organised, starting off with the roots and foundations of this link between fashion and architecture in the 1980's, and then thematically classifying different structures, techniques and functions seen in both buildings and clothes... shelter, geometry, structural skin, volume, deconstruction, wrapping, pleating, printing, draping, folding, weaving, cantilevers and suspension. The conclusion of it all is that throughout the exhibition, whilst linking techniques can be seen in both fashion and architecture, they remain separate fields, influencing each other quietly but that finally, we are seeing a synthesis between the two, leaving it open ended as to whether we will see both fashion and archictured blur with each other.
I left with my own conclusions that a) I don't know nearly enough about architecture and b) I haven't seen enough of the world...
Then the fashion itself combined designers and designs that I was very familiar with and expected and also some unexpected names that I was probably more floored by. You have the Watanabe, Yamamoto, the CdG, the Miyake, McQueen, Chalayan, Elbaz etc but a lot of archive pieces by Isabel Toledo and Nanni Strada and a Yoshiki Hishinuma that probably counts as a household name in Japan yet this was the first time I had encountered him.
Definitely one not to miss for Londoners or tourists passing by...
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