"Stephen Jones: The Accent of Fashion" closed exhibition at MoMu (Antwerp, BE)

This blog is following the exhibits' calendar at MoMu in Antwerp to offer photo-essays of the showa on display.  You can go to Exhbition in MoMu, Antwerp for the show "BLACK: Masters of Black in Fashion and Costume”, to read about previous exhibits in 2010.


But current exhibition, Stephen Jones: The Accent of Fashion was on show since 8th September until last February 13th.  This blog also previewed some news on Exhibition design: working meeting in the exhibit rooms (Antwerp, BE)

Some information from MoMu's web:

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Jone's house, Stephen Jones Millinery, MoMu presents a retrospective exhibition.  The exhibition Stephen Jones: The Accent of Fashion guides you through the unique world of a hatmaker who has worked with many of the greatest names in the international fashion scene for three decades: Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, Comme des Garçons, Claude Montana, John Galliano, Christian Dior, Azzedine Alaïa,Walter Van Beirendonck, Marc Jacobs, and many more. Stephen Jones plays a unique behind-the-scenes role in fashion because of the unparalleled freedom he is given by designers, allowing his work to influence the image of a collection. Just as accents in language lead to the correct reading and rhythm of a text, Jones’s hats add the appropriate punctuation to a designer’s fashion statement.

The space used is the same as in previous exhibits, but every topic is forcing to redefine its architecture and redesing its the use.  In the case of Jones' show the idea is offer an open plan with a divisions of "islands" of content: hats.  In the show everything is about hats, and objects were decided and chosen by Jones in collaboration with the curators Geert Bruloot (also the exb¡hibit designer) and Kaat Debo, as well as the museum team. The main concepts are distributed alog the "islands" where further information about how to and when, and why these hatas were created are accompanied buy historic/biographical stories offered by the same objects and some media devices who project runways, or clips or films about or dedicated to the artist/crafter's ideas and creations.


The photo-visit:

More info:
MoMu exhibitons , MoMu information, MoMu Blog

A Museumgoer is a visitor?

Interesting the use of the word  museumgoer, as read on an article in the New York Times:

... But the task is one that confronts almost all art museums now as they compete against pop culture and try to foster a new generation of museumgoers.

Definition from the Merriam-Webster dictionary:

 a person who frequently goes o museums and first know use of it: 1930

Then, who are the art museums really working for these days? I just post the question here.

Reception space and cloakroom

The entrance at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen was reorganized a couple of years ago, and the space was expanded to house a wider and bigger reception desk,

and cloakroom that a design studio conceived, with a practical, minimalistic, but stylish approach; this new space requires the visitor's action to function properly and can also be described as an sculptured piece of utilitary machinery.

and as part of the reception area the new museum's bookstore houses colection of publishings.

A same space, three diferent functions acting as a welcome to visitors, with a negative bias: a little distracting to the real entrance to exhibits.

Egyptian Official, Zahi Hawass, Says Antiquities Are Secure - NYTimes.com

I usually do not post content directly from newspapers, but this is a case of exception since the content discussed here is extremely important

Egyptian Official, Zahi Hawass, Says Antiquities Are Secure - NYTimes.com