Two exhibitions hint the profession of the long-lasting Franco-Tunisian designer and couturier, a real sculptor of female bodies.
Azzedine Alaïa (1935-2017) has left an indelible mark on the historical past of style because the 1980s. This lover of girls knew find out how to play with shapes and curves, volumes and materials to sculpt the outfits of his fashions, like Naomi Campbell, Grace Jones, and Stephanie Seymour. We additionally owe him his most lovely cuts for Greta Garbo, Arletty, and Louise de Vilmorin. “Alaïa Earlier than Alaïa, The Genesis of a Type” seems again at his apprenticeship years when he left Tunis for Paris within the 1950s, until his blossoming on the daybreak of the 1980s. The unique exhibition, beneath the glass roof of his Basis, tells his story between the legacy of his studies in sculpture at the Beaux-Arts, the men and women who've counted, the creation of his house-workshop, and his strategy of leather-based, jersey, and stretch. All that is punctuated by a number of clothes and creations from his early years that built the “Alaïa type.”
Timeless aesthetics
This visit is a perfect complement to a go to to SCAD (Savannah School of Artwork and Design) in Lacoste, Provence. The exhibition “Azzedine Alaïa: The Art of Style” was launched on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the school’s worldwide implantation.
Between blouses, clothes, and fits, twenty models, consultant of his profession, have fun his inventive and stylistic achievement. The items are introduced as masterpieces from the private archives of his Basis. This virtuoso of reduce and proportion, typically seen sporting his iconic black Chinese go well with, continues to be thought-about the last heir to the good tradition of sculptor-architect couturiers. In the present day, he continues to determine his standing as a discreet icon by way of his present for creating clothes that reveal, sublimate, and drape the feminine figure like a second skin.
Azzedine Alaïa Basis
Till October 23, 2022
18 rue de la Verrerie, 75004 Paris
SCAD Lacoste
Until October 29, 2022
Rue du 4, 84480 Lacoste
https://www.scad.edu/locations/lacoste
Nathalie Dassa
L’article <strong>Azzedine Alaïa in the spotlight</strong> est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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