Hussein Chalayan exhibition at Design Museum 21 January – 17 May 2009
The first comprehensive presentation of Hussein Chalayan’s work in the UK who has spanning fifteen years of experimental projects.
The exhibition will explores Hussein Chalayan’s creative approach, his inspirations and the many themes which influence his work such as cultural identity, displacement and migration.
Fully established at the forefront of contemporary fashion design, the twice named “British Designer of the Year,” Hussein Chalayan, is renowned for his innovative use of materials, meticulous pattern cutting and progressive attitudes to new technology.
Presenting fashion as a site of exploration and as expressions of concepts, his ideas and disciplines not readily associated with fashion, Hussein Chalayan’s pioneering work crosses between architecture, design, philosophy, anthropology, science and technology.
Readings
Bringing the latest LED technology to fashion design with a spectacular dress consisting of Swarovski crystals, 15,000 flickering LED lights and over 200 moving lasers that presenting an extraordinary spectacle of light.
Airborne
Aircraft wing with Swarovski crystals
Afterwords
Still taken from the short film Absent Presence, featuring Tilda Swinton. Explores the notion of ‘wearable, portable architecture’ in which furniture literally transforms itself into garments
Repose 1, 2006
Born in Nicosia, Cyprus. At the age of 12, he came to England to study and later graduated from Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, London in 1993. His highly inventive graduate collection, The Tangent Flows was bought in full by the London retailer, Browns.
He participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide including Radical Fashion at the V&A, London (1997), Fashion at the Kyoto Costume Institute in Japan (1999), Airmail Clothing at the Musee de la Mode, Paris (1999), Century City at Tate Modern (2001), Godess: The Classical Mode at Moma, New York (2003) and Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture at Somerset House, London (2008).
Chalayan set up his own label in 1994 and his debut collection was shown at London Fashion Week in 1995 and won critical acclaim. In 2006 Chalayan was awarded an MBE for services to the fashion industry.
To request further information, images, and interviews please contact Ashley Woodfield at the Design Museum Press Office.
DESIGN MUSEUM
SHAD THAMES
LONDON SE1 2YD
T: 020 7940 8787
E:ashley@designmuseum.org
PUBLIC INFORMATION
T: 020 7940 8790
W: designmuseum.org
Source and images credit: Design Museum, Hussein Chalayan.
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