Exhibition21 Jul – 9 Sep 2017
Fast Fashion: The dark side of fashion
Taking a critical look behind the scenes of the fashion industry with an exhibition that undresses the social, economic and environmental impacts…
Bernhard Willhelm,‘Ghost Girls’ (2003). Photograph by Daniel Mayer.
Bernhard Willhelm,‘Ghost - Doro’ (2003). Photograph by Daniel Mayer.
Bernhard Willhelm,‘Ghosts’ (2003). Photograph by Daniel Mayer.
Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer
Bernhard Willhelm, Collections 2001–2004
An audiovisual exhibition of internationally renowned young fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm. Multiple screens and a large scale projection present his fanciful catwalk shows and avant-garde performances. Willhelm’s recent men’s and women’s collections play with the fantasy of fairytales and childhood memories in the use of iconic patterns and recycled fabric. The exhibition also features a collaborative film made with Olaf Breuning, a master of constructed scenarios, that provokes contrasting feelings of discomfort and fascination, repulsion and seduction.
Berhard Willhelm now lives and works in Paris but was born in Ulm, Germany. His collections convey something distinctly Germanic about them, a quality that highlights his antipathy to the clichés of the international fashion culture. He continues to draw consciously on his native country’s traditional clothing style which he reiterates and deconstructs in his work.
The approach of this young designer defies simple classification. His fashion questions our notion of the familiar and pushes the limits of what can be worn and what clothing signifies.
Presented by the L’Oreal Melbourne International Fashion Festival and RMIT Gallery.
Related
Exhibition14 Mar – 30 Apr 2005
Dressed To The Eyes: The Fashions Of Hall Ludlow
Sculptural, sumptuous, yet spiritual and subtle. Hall Ludlow’s work has left an indelible mark on the Australian fashion history. As Australia’s…
Exhibition2 Mar – 14 Apr 2007
Fabsolute: the fashion illustration of Alfredo Bouret 1940s-1960s
This exhibition follows fashion illustrator Alfredo Bouret’s career from 1946 through to the early 1960s. Work presented in the exhibition was created…
Exhibition12 Feb – 21 May 2010
The Endless Garment: The New Craft of Machine Knitting
The Endless Garment celebrates the virtuosity and future directions of the new craft of machine knitting which is changing the way fashion…
Exhibition2 Mar – 14 Apr 2007
Fashion Face: Fashion photography by Robyn Beeche 1979-1989
Australian photographer Robyn Beeche’s photographic style moved from the realm of straight fashion photography into that of high art. Based in London…
Exhibition11 Feb – 22 Mar 2008
Zandra Rhodes: A Lifelong Love Affair with Textiles
A stunning exhibition of Zandra Rhodes’ unrivalled designs will be on display in the first major retrospective of the fashion doyen’s garments…
Exhibition13 May – 25 Jun 2005
A Matter Of Time: 16th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial
The Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial is recognised nationally as Australia’s pre-eminent textile related exhibition. The 16th Biennial focuses on time and temporality….
Exhibition30 Oct – 21 Nov 2008
Hannah Pang: Dreams from Loom and Needle
Fashion designer Hannah Pang creates beautiful fabrics through traditional technique “kesi” – an ancient weaving craft that creates a silk tapestry with…