skin and bones

i just found out about an awesome traveling exhibition that took place in 2008 in la, tokyo and london:
skin and bones: parallel practices in fashion and architecture.



here is the exhibit guide. its 57 glorious pages long. its amazing because it charts a lot of the line- blurring between structure and garment that i have been so interested in with my own designs.

and here is a review of the exihibition from the times (uk):

The exhibition spotlights the gorgeously tailored models of the various cliques that emerged: the so-called Deconstructivists such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Peter Eisenman, their buildings pleated and folded like an Issey Miyake dress; “materialists” such as Herzog & de Meuron, whose sparely shaped Basel Signal Box demanded you to dwell on the tactile qualities of its tight-bound copper strip skin. It places them in themed sections – shelter, geometry, structural skin, identity, pleating, etc – beside equally luscious fashion by designers such as Yohji Yamamoto, Boudicca, Hussein Chalayan, Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen, whose structural designs, the exhibition proposes, began to reference architecture at the same time.

i would have loved to see all this amazing work in one place.