With the current wave of young fashion designers creating statement collections heavy with knitwear, it could not be timelier for Antwerp’s MoMu Fashion Museum to set up an exhibition that explores the richness and diversity of knitwear in fashion. Deceivingly, knitwear seems an unlikely suspect in the high-fashion world. Unravel: Knitwear in Fashion, counters the established idea of knitwear as old-fashioned and instead holds up an inspiring variety of knitted garments and accessories from the great fashion houses of the last centuries – Elsa Schiaparelli, Jean Patou and Chanel – up to contemporary designers and labels, including Sandra Backlund, Maison Martin Margiela and Mark Fast. The exhibition is a joint project of the MoMu and Emmanuelle Dirix, who is lecturer of Critical Issues at Winchester School of Art and also teaches at the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and at University of the Arts London. MoMu’s curator Karen Van Godtsenhoven sheds some light on the exhibition.
by Siska Lyssens for Anothermag.com
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