Fashion & Interiors

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9789464941937 Author(s): Romy Cockx Format: Hardcover Year: 2025 Publisher: Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Pages: 224

Description: This impressive catalogue explores the relationship between fashion and interior design through a gendered lens. In the Victorian era, well-to-do women embellished their bodies and interiors with draped fabrics, frills and ruffles. They visually blended into their surroundings or even threatened to disappear into them. Contemporary fashion designers conceptualise that fusion by transforming interior elements into clothing. Fashion & Interiors also highlights how male designers, such as Henry van de Velde and Josef Hoffmann, designed women's clothing as part of a total work of art. Fashion designers Paul Poiret and Jeanne Lanvin took inspiration from that approach and deployed interior design in the 'branding' of their fashion house. The impact of clothing also resonated with modernist (interior) architects such as Adolf Loos, Lilly Reich and Le Corbusier. The historical connection between fashion and interiors continues to influence fashion designers such as Ann Demeulemeester, Martin Margiela and Raf Simons. With text contributions by Romy Cockx (MoMu), Robin Schuldenfrei (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Lara SteinhäuÃer (MAK) and other subject specialists. AUTHORS: Romy Cockx is curator of MoMu / Fashion Museum Antwerp. She studied history at the University of Antwerp and worked as project officer for the Archive Centre for Women's History and as curator for Fashion Museum Hasselt. From 2014 to 2019, she was curator of diamond museum DIVA, where she curated two 'Wonder Rooms' in collaboration with Axel Vervoordt and Wouters&Hendrix in addition to the collection presentation. Robin Schuldenfrei's research and teaching focuses on the history and theory of European and American modern architecture and design. She received her doctorate from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and previously held positio