ATOPOS Cultural Organization - Projects 2008 - RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion

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Vassilis Zidianakis

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RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion
Musée d’Art Moderne
Grand-Duc Jean
MUDAM
11.10.08 - 02.02.09
Luxembourg

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Following the Benaki Museum in Athens and in advance of the Fashion Museum in Antwerp and the London Design Museum, Mudam presents RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion. This exhibition, conceived by ATOPOS, is the result of years of research into paper clothing, a phenomenon that was very fashionable in the United States towards the end of the 1960s but not wellknown to the general public. Starting with an analysis of the historical context, the exhibition approaches, in an original way, the use of cellulose-based materials for the conception of cloth (woven or not) resembling paper and its equivalents. While presenting various current uses of paper in fashion design, it will also exhibit art objects and publicity material as well as films of fashion shows of recent creations by some of the most innovative designers including Hiroaki Ohya, Hussein Chalayan and Issey Miyake. The exhibition RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion has been conceived as an evolving apparatus which will offer a new angle of approach at each stage of its itinerary, investigating the history and the development of paper materials.
Exhibits: The Atopos paper dress collection, Sandra Backlund, Walter Van Beirendonck, Karim Bonnet / Takashi Murakami, Bless, Hugo Boss / James Rosenquist, Sarah Caplan, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Michael Cepress, Hussein Chalayan, Ann Demeulemeester, Yiorgos Eleftheriades / Kristina P., Maurizio Galante, John Galliano, Harry Gordon, Mathew Holloway, Travis Hutchison, Zoe Keramea, Yannis Kyriakides, Bas Kosters, Tao Kurihara pour Comme des Garçons, Helmut Lang, Suzanne Lee, Jean-Paul Lespagnard, Martin Margiela, Irini Miga, Issey Miyake, Jum Nakao, Hiroaki Ohya, Angelo Plessas, Dirk Van Saene, Deepak Raja Shrestha, Raf Simons, Reiko Sudo/Nuno, Marcus Tomlinson / Gareth Pugh, Kosuke Tsumura, UEG, A.F. Vandevorst, Junya Watanabe, Robert Wilson, Vassilis Zidianakis.

Curator and exhibition design: Vassilis Zidianakis, Artistic Director of Atopos Cultural Organization, Athens
Exhibition design on an original idea by Normal Studio
Atopos Team: Vassilis Zidianakis, Stamos Fafalios, Aristoula Karra, Leonidas Poulopoulos, Myrsini Pichou, Grigoris Kotsiyannis, Fenia Lagiou, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Vasso Fazou

Special Edition
Mudam Paper Dress by Jean-Paul Lespagnard
Edition of 100 pieces. Sold at Mudam Boutique from
10.10.2008 on.

Monster by Bas Kosters, 2007

Special Exhibition Programme

10.10. 7pm TALK during the opening of the exhibition BioCouture Suzanne Lee is the Creative Director of the research project Bio Couture and a Fellow at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London. She will address the issue of ecological and sustainable fashion of the future, literally grown in the laboratory.
In English.

11.10. 6pm-1am NUIT DES MUSΙES
Open Workshop
Create your own paper clothes! No booking.

05.11. 11am-6pm WORKSHOP
RRRIPP!! Sound Workshop
Yannis Kyriakides is a composer and explores the sounds of paper. Create your own sound, record it and listen to it during the playlist (6pm-8pm) at the Mudam Cafι. From 14 years on.
Booking: workshop@mudam.lu

05.11. 2pm-5pm WORKSHOPS for children
06.11. 2pm-5pm Paper Fashion Workshop
07.11. 2pm-5pm Create paper objects!
6-13 years. Free. Booking required: workshop@mudam.lu

10.12. 6.30pm Guided Tour
Why paper clothes? Free. Without booking.
6pm-8pm WEDNESDAYS AT MUDAM Screening of fashion shows: Martin Margiela, Jum Nakao, Junya Watanabe, TAO / Comme des Garçons, Hiroaki Ohya, A.F. Vandevorst, Walter Van Beirendonck, John Galliano.

Couverture de magazine detail “TinTin”, J. C. de Castelbajac

Atopos gratefully acknowledges: the Benaki Museum, Athens, the Atopos International Board of Advisors and all Donors to the Atopos collection, especially the Issey Miyake Inc., the Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation and the Breeder Gallery, Athens - all Supporters of the RIP-RAP conservation programme, particularly La Redoute Hellas, and the Bernier / Elliades Gallery and C & F Architects of Athens - the Embassy of Greece and the Greek Community of Luxembourg for their encouragement and support

Media Sponsors - KATHIMERINI, Herald Tribune / KATHIMERINI English Edition, Athens Plus, Ozon Magazine.