DX Museum: Politics of Fashion | Fashion of Politics
Fashion has been said to be a mirror of society – a reflection of the times in which we live. Canada’s DX Museum explores the relationship between society, politics and fashion in their latest exhibition.
Throughout history, clothing has been a vehicle of identity and platform for communication, telling the world who we are and sometimes, articulating what it is that we stand for. For decades, fearless and passionate designers have used this forum as a tool to express their own ethics and ideologies, as well as to create a wardrobe for like-minded people to do the same.
Titled Politics of Fashion | Fashion of Politics the exhibition spans six decades and plays host to over 200 pieces. It will explore the numerous ways fashion has helped ignite political awareness and at the same time, how politics have dictated style through the decades.
The exhibition will be organised into five sections: ethics and activism; war and peace; consumption and consumerism; campaign and power dressing; and gender and sexuality. Works and garments from Hussein Chalayan, Jeremy Scott, Moschino, Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Rad Hourani are on display. fluoro spoke with Hourani in the lead up to the exhibition about how he writes his own rules. The full interview can be read here.
Politics Of Fashion | Fashion Of Politics is on display at the Design Exchange Museum in Toronto, Canada until Sunday 25 January 2015.
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