New Fashion: Interventions in Materials and Techniques is the first of three exhibitions at the Fashion Space Gallery devoted to emerging talent across the disciplines of fashion design, illustration and photography.
Fashion Space Gallery presents the first major photographic retrospective of Carmen Dell’Orefice.
The exhibition is a rare and intimate portrait of a young woman’s meteoric rise and sustained role as fashion’s muse. On display will be photographs never before seen in public, taken from Carmen’s own personal archive, alongside key images kindly donated by photographers and their estates for the purposes of the exhibition.
David McDiarmid (1952-95) was an artist, DJ, graphic designer, fashion designer and queer political activist. He was born in Australia and lived and worked in Sydney before moving to New York where he worked from 1979 until 1987. He died in Sydney of HIV Aids-related illness in 1995.
Yohji Yamamoto at Work tells the lifecycle of a single garment, a dark navy sleeveless pleated dress from his Autumn/Winter 2010-11 season, in reverse sequence from the finished article set in the front entrance of the College on John Prince's Street, through to the raw fabric in which Yamamoto’s design lies latent.
This extraordinary body of work immerses us in this colorful and wonderful world, drawing our attention to the beauty and depth of The New Gypsies as individuals and as part of a community offering us an opportunity to consider the possibilities of a different way of life and future.
This exhibition is part of ongoing research by Judith Clark who is a Reader in the Field of Fashion and Museology at London College of Fashion and independent exhibition-maker, into how a story or a chosen history is reconstructed and displayed through the use of mannequins, the selection of clothes and exhibition props.
