Fashion exhibitions are a difficult feat, even though they are wildly popular in terms of visitor numbers. And yet, clothes behind vitrines somehow mostly miss the point. A slightly different approach is taken by the ethnic Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, where tonight the exhibition Trading Style will open: presenting not only more than 500 fashion artefacts from all over the world and past and present, they also invited four international contemporary labels – Buki Akib from Nigeria, A Kind of Guise from Germany, CassettePlaya from the UK and P.A.M. from Australia – to explore the archives in short residencies and create new prototypes from their findings, which are presented alongside. ‘World Fashion in Dialogue’ the exhibition is subtitled, and a dialogue it is.
Trading Style
08 November 2012 –
31 August 2013
Weltkulturen Museum
Schaumainkai 29
60594 Frankfurt
