>> I'm not ENTIRELY sure why when this original retrospective of Hussein Chalayan's work from 1994-2009 at London's Design Museum was never blogged about here. I'm scratching my head even more seeing as the exhibition was also media-partnered by Dazed & Confused, where I was working at the time. Was I somehow put off by the mountains of positive praise the exhibition got and thus didn't think me and my blog chirping in was going to add anything useful or insightful?
As I ponder what happened to my responsible posting antics during the period of January and May 2009, I'm instead going to be INCREDIBLY belated by posting these pics that I took at the Istanbul Modern where the exhibition is currently touring and has also been updated with additions of some of his 2010 collections. I guess I still have nothing interesting to say about the exhibition in 2010 as my muted self in 2009, other than to echo what everyone else has said. What I will say though is that given the bigger space of the Istanbul Modern, Donna Loveday's curation of the exhibition seems even more effective, especially when it comes to the video projections of Chalayan's various film projects that he has accumulated throughout the years. The choice of mannequins that have an almost-eerie expression and liveliness to their faces all bring the extraordinary clothes to life as opposed to the alternative of the normal headless dummies that could have made Chalayan's creations look cold and sterile. And oh dear... here we go... review mode... this is of course NOT new for those that did make it to the Design Museum but somehow, reliving it the second time in the hustle of Istanbul, a ground closer to Chalyan's Turkish-Cypriot roots, enhanced the overall impact of the exhibition. Plus, this is blogpost atonement here.
Ah I just remembered.... I had a duff SD card that deleted my pics of the exhibition... DOUBLE DOH!
Blindscape S/S 05
Inertia S/S 09
Ambimorphous A/W 02
Airmail Dress 1999
Panoramic A/W 1998
Manifest Destiny S/S 03
Place to Passage 2003
After Words A/W 2000
Kinship Journeys A/W 03
Temporal Meditations S/S 04
Airborne A/W 07
