Fashion & Interiors
A Gendered Affair
Romy Cockx
Hannibal Books
Lingua : Inglese
Copertina rigida : 224 pagine
Subject: Fashion
Exploring fashion and interior design through a gender lens, from the Victorian era to contemporary designers like Martin Margiela and Raf Simons
This impressive catalogue examines the relation between fashion and interior design through a gender lens. In the Victorian era, wealthy women adorned their bodies and home interiors with draped fabrics, fringes, and ruffles. They visually blended into their surroundings or even risked disappearing within them. Contemporary fashion designers conceptually reinterpret this fusion by transforming interior elements into garments.
Fashion & Interiors also highlights male architects like Henry van de Velde and Josef Hoffmann, who designed women’s clothing as part of a total work of art. Fashion designers Paul Poiret and Jeanne Lanvin adopted this approach, using interior design to brand their fashion houses. The impact of clothing also resonated with modernist (interior) architects such as Adolf Loos, Lilly Reich, and Le Corbusier. The historical interconnection between fashion and interiors continues to influence designers like Ann Demeulemeester, Martin Margiela, and Raf Simons.
With contributions by Romy Cockx (MoMu), Robin Schuldenfrei (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Lara Steinhäußer (MAK) and other experts in the field.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Fashion & Interiors – A Gendered Affair at MoMu Antwerp, running from 29 March to 3 August 2025.
Image credits cover: Photo Craig McDean/Art+Commerce, model Amber Valletta
STATO: In Commercio
€ 59.00
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