BELGIAN FASHION DESIGN
1999

Edited by Luc Derycke and Sandra Van De Veire


metamorphosis
language
art
architecture
street
language (re-appearance)
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function
craft
history
codes
bareness
material
body
identity
androgyny
media
entourage

BARENESS
( t h e  i n v i s i b l e  b o d y )

WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK: "I have always been been preoccupied with it, with nudidity. With what you can get away with and what you can't. I wanted somehow to show a penis, a naked male, but I never did because I couldn't find a way to do it. I didn't just want to shock people. "I finally managed to do it by putting a print of a penis on a pair of trousers which was worn in the show as a piece of trompe I'œil. At first sight it seemed completely real. The audience seemed to think so too, until the model passed them. Then they felt relieved - it was only a print. On that occasion I managed to combine two things, the shock of nudity and the intellectual quality of an image."
MATERIAL
( [ s e c o n d ]  s k i n )