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GAME CHANGERS. REINVENTING THE 20TH-CENTURY SILHOUETTE

18 March 2016 - 14 August 2016

Game Changers looks at the groundbreaking work of fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga, whose innovations in the middle of the 20th century created a radically new silhouette, in which the body got freedom of movement and architectural volumes created a space around the body.

Influences from Japan, such as the kimono, liberated women from their tight corsets at the beginning of the 20th century. Fashion designers such as Madeleine Vionnet, Paul Poiret and Coco Chanel shaped this freedom in the 1920s–1930s with technical innovations and modern ideas about femininity.

At the end of the 20th century, the boundaries of the female silhouette are further explored by Japanese and Belgian designers such as Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons, Ann Demeulemeester and Martin Margiela. They paved the way for new body shapes and abstract silhouettes and gave a new interpretation of what could be considered as fashion.

This exhibition unites 150 unique couture and ready-to-wear silhouettes by Cristóbal Balenciaga, Gabrielle Chanel, Yohji Yamamoto and Iris van Herpen. With loans from prestigious collections of the museum of Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, the V&A, the Municipal Museum of The Hague, MUDE Lisbon and Musée Musée Galliera in Paris.

Video production: Studio Gerrit Schreurs