Skin and Bones Exhibition

The Skin and Bones exhibition is very interesting idea. It looks at how fashion and architecture work together from the 1980's to the present day. The exhibition explored how over 50 internationally renowned architects and designers (includes Alexander Mcqueen and Vivienne Westwood) 'fashion' buildings and 'construct' garments.

I found some information below detailing information behind the exhibition which I found useful to read.

''Both architects and designers are preoccupied with space, volume and providing a cover for the body, a protection from the environment and a vehicle for social and cultural comment. And these are the kernels at the heart of the exhibition, presented thematically with garments or catwalk videos on one side and architectural parallels opposite.
So the tectonic wrapping at play in Boudicca's mid-Nineties couture collections is remarkably similar to Gehry's Disney Concert Hall in LA of the early Noughties. The heightened drapery of Westwood and Yamamoto's collections of a couple of years back bear a striking resemblance to much of Hadid's work, whilst the constructed volume of Chalayan and Watanabe's Noughties collections shares much with the work of Foreign Office Architects of the same period. The similarities go on. Often the only significant differences are related to scale and material.''

Below are some images of features within the exhibition.

  

     I like the structure of this garment.

 

Interesting to see a hand rendered piece showing some of the designs (pictured above).


I found it interesting looking at the link between fashion and architecture and realising how similar the two disciplines are. Its taught me to look at fashion designers for inspiration rather than sticking to interior designers/architects.