The Ideal Man - Fashion for real men

until sunday october 26 2008
Gemeentemuseum
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2517 HV Den Haag, Postbus 72
2501 CB Den Haag
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Clothes make the man. At times it may seem as if men simply open the wardrobe and put on the first thing that comes to hand, or as if a frivolous tie to brighten up the standard grey three-piece suit is the most daring thing they ever put on, but the exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag shows that nothing could be further from the truth.

Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, habit à la Française, anonymus, c. 1780-1785, Photo: Sylvia Korving.

The Ideal Man, fashion for real men, combines brightly coloured and extravagantly patterned eighteenth-century habits à la française with spectacular contemporary outfits from the latest collections of celebrated designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano, Bernhard Willhelm and Walter van Beirendonck. The evidence of the past and present reveals that men’s fashion is anything but boring.