London Design Museum will host a retrospective in May 2018, to celebrate the timeless beauty of the female form with thirty-five years of haute couture from Azzedine Alaïa. planned by Alaia himself exploring his passion and energy for fashion as he himself intended it to be seen.
Discover the mastery of cut from 10 May – 7 October 2018, tailoring, fit, innovative form and materials behind the designer’s unique creations.The exhibition will present more than 60 outstanding examples of Alaïa’s craft from the past thirty-five years, selected personally by Monsieur Alaïa and guest curator Mark Wilson (Chief Curator of the Groninger Museum, NL). The exhibition will also integrate specially commissioned architectural elements by leading artists and designers with whom the couturier entertained a long-term creative dialogue, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Konstantin Grcic, Marc Newson, Kris Ruhs, and Tatiana Trouvé.
