Sarah Moon Teresa Stewart for Issey Miyake, 1995 Farbabzug 2011 Courtesy Sarah Moon
As long as there has been fashion, there have been the corresponding images. The relationship between fashion, its images and the varying forms of media communication used over the past 30 years, is the topic of this special exhibition 'Visions & Fashion, Images of Fashion: 1980|2010' in the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.
The exhibition, curated by Adelheid Rasche, is divided in two sections. The first part presents 40 groups of work with original works by international photographers (amongst them famous names like Peter Lindbergh, Michel Comte and Sarah Moon), illustrators (like Mats Gustafson and Tina Berning), graphic artists and painters.
Especially the original works of art by the illustrators are worth seeing, as works like the multi-layered collages by Cem Bora lose a certain amount of their charm when printed, reduced to print-necessitated two-dimensionality.
The second part of the exhibition shows different visual approaches to design, for example 'The Creation of Illusory Beauty' or, as a counter tendency, the 'Radicalisation of Image Vocabulary'.
The choice was driven by various types of object and comprises printed products like magazines, posters and look books as well as image films and websites which all demonstrate the variety and multi-faceted nature of media communications in fashion today.
This exhibition, which we warmly recommend, is on till 9. October in the Kulturforum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, on Potsdamer Platz.
Cem Bora Ohne Titel (Mode von Balenciaga), 2006 Collage Courtesy Cem Bora
Jacqueline Ostermann Ohne Titel, 2006 Mischtechnik Courtesy Jacqueline Ostermann
Lorenzo Mattotti Titelseite für "The New Yorker" (Mode von Vivienne Westwood), 1993 Mischtechnik Courtesy Lorenzo Mattotti
