Hussein Chalayan: Through the Years

Here are some of the amazing pieces from “Hussein Chalayan — From Fashion and Back” at London’s Design Museum. This is the first exhibition of the designers work in his adopted country.

After Words (Autumn/Winter 2000)

Kinship Journeys (October 2003)
The displays capture with quiet authority a style in which women are empowered but never exploited, the clothes gracefully embracing the body.

Before Minus Now (Spring/Summer 2000)
Mannequins in the exhibition worked at painting walls or clipping each other’s dresses into a sculptured topiary.

Panoramic (Autumn/Winter 1998)
“Restlessness has made me an open and free thinker. A lot of my ideas end up aesthetically as clothes — they are explorations,” Hussein Chalayan said.

Inertia (Spring/Summer 2009)
Clothes ran from the conceptual to commercial.

Temporal meditations (Spring/Summer 2004)
A model is shown swirled in a gown whilst sipping a mundane cup of coffee. “I think that I have become my work — and that is a hindrance and a gain,” said the designer.

Via nytimes.com