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BELGIAN FASHION DESIGN
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 WALTER
VAN BEIRENDONCK: "I'm enormously fascinated by cloning and by the idea
of manipulating the body. In the Black Beauty collection I wanted to raise
a number of questions about accepted standards of beauty and about the possibilities
offered by plastic surgery, the extent to which such a procedure can be
ethically acceptable... And then I started to create new proportions. I
wanted to show that the standards to which we think the human body should
conform, are standards which can be re-thought, or changed, quite quickly.
I also think that the body of the future will be different from the body
we know today, which means that clothing will look different too. It might
easily be possible one day for an athlete to manipulate a part of his body
to make himself run faster, and of course once such a possibility exists,
people will make use of it. If for example a typist wants an extra finger,
it will be possible for one to be provided. I think that in the end the
body will be manipulated to benefit certain specific functions, to increase
its chance of survival, to make it more efficient."WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK W.&L.T. A Fetish for Beauty Spring/Summer 1998. Photos: Frank Dumoulin. |
