"Don't be deceived by Kate Moss's Hunter wellies at the entrance. Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion showcases clothes that are deliberately distressed and filthy, and will come as a shock to anyone whose idea of a fashion exhibition involves glass vitrines and slick, ambient glamour, or the sort of wildly popular blockbusters put on (and paid for) by brands such as Dior and Chanel."
"Taking 120 objects mostly clothes, all filthy by more than 60 designers both established (the oldest garment is Zandra Rhodes's safety-pinned wedding dress from 1977) and new (star of London fashion week, Paolo Carzana), the idea is to look beyond simple provocation in order to explore the ways in which contemporary fashion has used dirt, sweat and stains to question western beauty ideals, while exposing the more sanitised side of fashion mass-produced, internet-sold as incomparably dirtier by contrast."
Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion at the Barbican presents 120 deliberately distressed and filthy garments by more than 60 designers, from Zandra Rhodes's 1977 safety-pinned wedding dress to contemporary figures such as Paolo Carzana. The presentation forgoes glass vitrines and glamour in favor of 12 rooms that grow progressively grimmer. The show examines dirt sourced from the environment, bodily sweat and stains, and designers who fake muck. Decay appears through mice damage, scissor cuts, timeworn fabrics and trompe l'oeil rips. The display contrasts sanitized, mass-produced, internet-sold fashion with couture that mimics real-world filth.
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