Chalayan, © Chris Moore, Courtesy of Hussein Chalayan.

Frank Gehry,
© Todd Eberle.

Somerset House
South Building
Strand
London
+44 (0)20 7845 4600
Skin+Bones: Parallel
Practices in Fashion
and Architecture
April 24-
August 10, 2008

Skin+Bones examines the visual and conceptual ideas that unite fashion and architecture, focusing on the period from the 1980s to the present day. The show features more than 200 works by over 50 internationally renowned architects and fashion designers.

Fashion design practices represented in the exhibition include Boudicca, Hussein Chalayan, Comme des Garçons, Martin Margiela, Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake, Viktor & Rolf, Junya Watanabe, Vivienne Westwood, and Yohji Yamamoto.

Architecture design practices in the exhibition include Shigeru Ban, Future Systems, Foreign Office Architects, Gehry Partners, Thomas Heatherwick, Herzog & de Meuron, Toyo Ito, Enrique Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue / EMBT Arquitectes, OMA, and Zaha Hadid.

Exhibits include iconic garments, three-dimensional architectural models and plans, and compelling film footage arranged in a series of themes such as shelter, identity,folding, draping, wrapping, pleating and weaving. There will be a number of specially selected new exhibits for London including work by Boudicca, Nigel Coates, Thomas Heatherwick, Martin Margiela, and Hussein Chalayan.

Organised by Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), and Brooke Hodge, its Curator of Architecture & Design, Skin+Bones opened in Los Angeles in November 2006, before travelling to The National Art Center Tokyo, Japan, in June 2007. Somerset House is the final venue on the exhibition’s international tour.

Boudicca © Clare Prentice, Courtesy of Flux Magazine.

Boudicca, Lowry Skirt: platform13.com, Photography: Studio88, Model: Paul@Premier, Art Direction: Tank.