Barbican Exhibition Explores Dirt's Subversive Role in Fashion Design
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Francesca Tesler
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Summary
The Barbican exhibition 'Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion' explores how dirt has been used as a subversive and disruptive element in fashion design. The exhibition features 120 works by 60 designers from around the world, examining dirt's role in challenging conventional beauty standards and exploring themes of desire, decay, and transformation in fashion. Curators Karen Van Godtsenhoven and Jon Astbury discuss the exhibition's focus on dirt's potential to disrupt traditional fashion narratives.
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Barbican curator Karen Van Godtsenhoven and assistant curator Jon Astbury discuss the subversive role of dirt in fashion.
The exhibition explores the 'disruptive' potential of dirt in fashion design.
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