> PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Captured during the final week of their ground-breaking exhibition at London's Barbican Gallery, this series of films offers a glimpse behind the scenes and into the creative universe of Viktor & Rolf. Featuring an interview with the Dutch duo recorded live during the symposium, framed by three presentations exploring their heritage, designs and the retrospective itself and completed by a video of their subsequent collection 'Funny Face', this project affords a rare insight into the creativity of two of the world's leading fashion stars.
> SYMPOSIUM
Examining the influence of Viktor & Rolf's cultural heritage, the craft within their designs and the staging of the Barbican exhibition itself through three live presentations.
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> SPRING/SUMMER 2009 SHOW
Fusing traditional Haute Couture salon presentation with their distinctly futuristic vision, Viktor & Rolf's Spring/Summer '09 collection 'Funny Face' is a fashion show with a difference. Exploring the possibilities of online presentation, the show is entirely devised and held in the cyberspace Grand Salon of the designer's 'virtual house', with supermodel Shalom Harlow multiplied and modelling each and every look.
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> Contributor Biographies
Viktor & Rolf
Viktor Horsting & Rolf Snoeren are fashion designers who have worked together as Viktor and Rolf since 1993. Renowned for the cut and proportion of their designs they turn recognisable, classic forms into...
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Penny Martin
Professor Penny Martin is a writer and curator of fashion and photography. She is Editor in Chief of The Gentlewoman magazine and Professor of Fashion Imagery at London College of Fashion, before which...
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Judith Clark
Judith Clark is a curator based in London. Clark trained in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture and at the Architectural Association; it was here where her shift towards fashion curation began...
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Ulrich Lehmann
Ulrich Lehmann is Professor of Fashion at the University for the Creative Arts at Rochester and Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He studied philosophy, sociology and the history of...
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José Teunissen
José Teunissen is Professor of Film Theory at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem. Teunissen studied Dutch language and film studies, specialising in the narrative function of costume in film, and read Film...
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> CREDITS
Interview: Penny Martin
Symposium Speakers: José Teunissen, Dr Ulrich Lehmann, Judith Clark
Symposium Visuals: Rachel de Boer of Floating Media
Symposium Soundtrack: Eddy de Clercq
Symposium Photography: Peter Stigter
Cinematography: Harry Hanrahan, Ross Phillips and Phill Taylor
Creative Direction: Paul Hetherington
Editorial Direction: Penny Martin and Alexander Fury
Art Direction: Paul Bruty
Front-end development: Francisco Salvado
Technical Direction: Dorian Moore
Production: Laura Bradley
Editorial Assistance: Caroline Legrand and Sally Bolton
Edit: Harry Hanrahan
Special Thanks to The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Dutch Cultural Fund, Submarine, Vitra, Bespoke Flowers, Esther Muñoz Grootveld, Jessica Voorwinde, Bram and all at Viktor & Rolf, The Barbican and Premsela