EXHIBITIONS

WHITE DRAMA – OF REI KAWAKUBO ON THE BACGROUND OF CRISTOBAL BALENCIAGA

By Eddie Musson | 23:20

“White drama” of Rei Kawakubo on the background of Cristobal Balenciaga
Cristobal Balenciaga a Spanish designer. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as “the master of us all” by Christian Dior. His bubble skirts and odd, feminine, yet ultra-modern shapes were trademarks of the house.

In tribute to the master of couture (1895-1972) and the 40th anniversary of his death, Galliera unveils, with the support of the Maison Balenciaga, a collection of passionate assembly modes by fashion and generously donated by the family the museum. Whalebone and casaquins, satin light clothes, boleros velvet collars and cloaks, dresses turnings, cashmere stoles, lace mantillas, embroidery and braiding samples … All these pieces, often lavish even small up jumble this collection of eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. More than seventy costumes and clothes elements interact with forty dresses and couture designer coats Balenciaga between 1937 and 1968 from the Galliera or loans granted by the Maison Balenciaga.
Accessories, photos, sketches and books on art and costume complete this witness as much passion for the history of fashion as his mastery of a learned profession child with his mother.

Scenography, restoring the reserves of a fashion museum with long aisles compactus drawers, presents these inspirational treasures that have archival value.

For the visitor, an invitation to travel the “imaginary museum” Cristóbal Balenciaga: Spanish and traditional folk, black and dark colors, cleans clothes and religious ceremony, the great masters of Spanish painting, and share creative intimacy “Couturier fashion designers.”

Creative breaks, Rei Kawakubo transfigures the classic exercise of the parade and diverts high fashion codes. With White Drama and almost monochrome models, it magnifies the major stages of life: birth, marriage, death and transcendence.
White Drama is white, pure, ceremonial and all its nuances. Floral outbreaks, laminated handkerchiefs, fleecy material here lace holes inspired by a christening gown and there an ornamental knot obi way, great coats and top hats reminiscent Sevillian processions of Holy Week, dress married to such a silky shell of an insect and fabrics, alternately crude and refined ride, shiny and matte, opaque and transparent, that stand, breathe, flourish borrowing from the mineral, vegetable and animal life forces nature.

White Drama is a tour de force as it emanates from these learned an immaterial dimension mode architectures that affects the spiritual and transports you into the world of unclassifiable Rei Kawakubo.