Disobedient Bodies @ Hepworth, Wakefield

May 10, 2017.Reading time 9 minutes.

Elongated arms reach below the ankles, faces are covered in fabric and costumes cling to one another in a bid to become one. The fashion on display at Jonathan Anderson’s Disobedient Bodies exhibition at the Hepworth in Wakefield do not conform to what we would usually expect to see in an exhibition. Where mannequins are […]

Balenciaga & Comme Des Garçons @ Les Docks en Seine, Paris

September 11, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

While in Paris I was also fortunate enough to see two contrasting fashion exhibitions at the docks inside a wonderful building on the river. The pieces on show were from the designers Cristobal Balenciaga and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons. The two shows were particularly striking in that despite standing side by side, they […]