...Viktor & Rolf, John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood.... Central Museum Utrecht 2003. 17,5 x 24,8 cm. 158 pp. with 98 (85 col.) ills. Biographies. Hardcover. Text in English & Dutch language. ISBN 978-9073285989
was: 42,– now: € 10,–
In the mid-1990s Haute Couture experienced a surprising revival. Classic femininity, which had been reviled as unemancipated by feminists in the 1970s, received a new lease of life. It was partly playful irony: Madonna adopting a succession of personas, and Vivienne Westwood with her over-the-top nineteenth-century pigtails. But it represented a turning point. In the twentieth century, mass media, fashion and film produced fantastic images of women, but political, social and feminist ideas have created a woman in the twenty-first century who is quite different to that of a century ago.
In the Stables of the Centraal Museum, nine internationally renowned fashion designers presented their vision of femininity and the ideal woman in the twenty-first century in the form of installations. The aim was to assemble as many different visions as possible. This book is a illustrated overview of the participating designers as there are Vievienne Westwood, Ann Demeulemeester, Viktor & Rolf, Veronique Leroy and others, completed by texts, drawings and photographs.
