ANTIFASHION (2012) film screening
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 – 17:00–Wednesday, January 8, 2025 – 19:00
We welcome you to a film screening of one of our all-time favorite fashion documentaries ANTIFASHION (2012) on Wednesday, 8th of January, at 18.00-20.00. The film explores the anti-fashion movement of the early 90s and features footage of Ann Demeulemeester, Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto, Helmut Lang and Martin Margiela, among others. Directed by Olivier Nicklaus. Fashion theorist Ida Eritsland will give an introduction before the screening.
In the early 1990s, with the economic crisis, the first Gulf War and the devastation caused by AIDS, fashion reflected the times. It was sombre, desperate and sometimes violent. Clothing underwent deconstruction and recycling, and fashion shows became fashion performances.
Fashion would never be the same again. ANTIFASHION (2012) shows how history, politics, and culture influenced fashion, and how in turn fashion influenced society and evoked cultural trends and movements worldwide.
Using an event which will mark the decade to come as a starting point, each episode revolves around four of the period's most emblematic designers, mixing small details and spicy anecdotes with the big picture to recount a decade of fashion but also culture, politics and social life.
A tale of creativity, money, egos, successes... and falls.
