It must be my week for noticing exhibitions. Today, it’s Viktor & Rolf Fashion Artists on at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 21 October 2016 to 26 February 2017.
If you are unaware of the creative, surreal, artistic and brilliant collections by Viktor & Rolf, it may be time to catch up, if you can, by seeing the exhibition, described in the promotional blurb as:
The spectacular and avant-garde creations of Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf are on display in Australia for the first time in an exhibition organised by the National Gallery of Victoria in close collaboration with the designers.
Viktor&Rolf: Fashion Artists explores Viktor & Rolf’s radical conception of ‘wearable art’. Since forming their creative partnership in 1992, Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have gained critical acclaim for their cerebral and witty approach to couture. The exhibition, which coincides with the luxury fashion label’s twenty-fifth anniversary in 2017, explores the elements that make Viktor & Rolf designs unique in the contemporary fashion world.
Viktor&Rolf: Fashion Artists features some of the Dutch design duo’s most show-stopping and innovative works, drawn from the Viktor & Rolf archive as well as museum collections in the Netherlands… click here to read more
If Australia is a little too far to travel, google, read, install the Vogue Runway App or just scroll down here, taking a moment to admire the *fashion as art* greatness of Viktor & Rolf …
