Skin+Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture

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Where do fashion and architecture collide?
Taking the early 1980s as its starting point - the moment when fashion and architecture first met in a meaningful way - Skin+Bones demonstrates how this period constituted a fertile ground for many of today's designers and architects. A rigorous intellectual dimension was introduced in fashion, while architecture became more playful, and technology began to influence both fields.
During the heady days of the 1980s blitz and punk culture brought freedom of expression, and fashion and architecture began to merge.
Discover how over 40 internationally-renowned architects and designers including Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Hussein Chalayan and Alexander McQueen 'fashion' buildings and 'construct' garments.
Featuring over 200 works including iconic garments, 3D architectural models and film footage, Skin+Bones looks at how clothing and architecture perform similar functions: providing shelter and promoting identity.
Somerset House brings this surprising exhibition to Europe, after successful showings in Tokyo and Los Angeles. The show will include specially selected new exhibits for London including work by Boudicca, Martin Margiela and Hussein Chalayan.
Skin+Bones will be a fitting premiere to launch the Embankment Galleries, a new exhibition space for London pushing the boundaries of what exhibitions are and can be.