PAYS-BAS / GRONINGEN: AZZEDINE ALAÏA: FOCUS ON MATERIALS

until Sunday May 06 2012
Mardi - Dimanche / 10.00h - 17.00h
Groninger Museum
T : +31 50 3 666 555
Museumeiland 1
9711 ME Groningen
The Netherlands

info@groningermuseum.nl
www.groningermuseum.nl

This exhibition displays the most fantastic Alaïa fashion creations of the last ten years. Each room in the exhibition will focus on a different material that Azzedine Alaïa has consistently used over the past decade: velvet, fur, wool, leather, cotton, animal skins, chiffon and knitwear.

Azzedine Alaia is one of the last major living couturiers. The exhibition focuses on Alaia's work in the 21st Century. It is the sequel to the presentation of his designs from previous decades, also shown at the Groninger Museum in 1997-1998, and which subsequently travelled to the Brant Foundation, Guggenheim Soho in New York in 2000. Tunisian-born Azzedine Alaïa is one of the most important fashion designers of the last decades. The name Alaïa stands for glamour, sensuality, style, cut, self-confidence, comfort and, of course, sex appeal. His tight dresses embrace the bodies of the world’s most seductive and successful women.