Polimoda Rendez-Vous with Filep Motwary - author, photographer and curator

On the occasion of his guest lecture inside Polimoda’s Aula Magna, costume designer, photographer, journalist, fashion curator and author Filep Motwary tackled the palindromic subject of ‘Fashion out of Fashion’. “Practically speaking, the most important virtue of fashion is indeed the body that still needs to be dressed. Fashion reflects who we are and where we want to be, how we want others to see us, how we present ourselves to society, how we communicate with the self and with the others. This is why it can be considered a form of political expression. The second half of the 20th century was the moment when we started to see the exhibition as a form of understanding fashion by gazing at fashion itself and therefore ourselves, where we come from or where we are going. At this a particularly chaotic moment for the fashion industry questions like ‘At which city should a designer choose for a show? When should the clothes we see on the runways be available to buy? Who is hot in fashion and who is not…?’ are not relevant to the practice of exhibiting fashion…” https://www.polimoda.com/rendez-vous-filep-motwary/