Occasional tailor-made
paper dress
Ghita Nørby received an 'Æresbodil' - an honorary award for her contribution to Danish film in a tailor-made paper dress designed by Annette Meyer. The paper dress has especially been designed for this occasion, made out of the same industrial paper that normally is used to wrap sugar and flour. The paper is printed with a selection of botanical flowers from the famous Danish encyclopedia 'Flora Danica', together with the golden border from the exclusive 'Flora Danica' porcelain service by Royal Copenhagen. The shape of the dress is inspired by the year 1900 and has especially been chosen to emphasize the beauty of Ghita Nørby.
Press
Exhibition at Trapholt Museum in Kolding, Denmark
ICON DRESSED / BODYWRAPPInc
Haute couture i plast og papir
26. January 2012 - 6. January 2013
Interview-film with Annette Meyer on YouTube
ICON DRESSED is a poetic recreation of shape and form in women’s Fashion over the past two centuries through 14 outfits in paper, with prints of the classical Danish porcelain service 'Flora Danica'. The art/ fashion installation is a composition of Fashion icons, Lenticular images displaying the icons in movement, and a musical ambience composed for the exhibition by Torben Snekkerstad.
Exhibition Co-production
Trapholt Museum
Röhsska Museet in Göteborg (Sweden)
Exhibition design
Annette Meyer
Sound composition
Torben Snekkestad
Lenticular (Blue)
Shiro Takatani
Lenticular (Red)
Ole Christiansen
BODYWRAPPInc. is a series of fashion-installations with 60 business suits made of disposable wrapping material from Asia, Europe and North America.
The fashion installations is now on show at Trapholt Museum in Kolding in Denmark and has been exibited in New York, Rotterdam, Kyoto and Tokyo.
On video screens you can expierience the opening events of the BODYWRAPPinc. exhibitions, where models walk the city streets of New York, Rotterdam, Kyoto and Tokyo. The models are each wearing an original BODYWRAPPInc. designer suit made out of mass produced disposable wrapping.
BODYWRAPPInc. plays with the similarities between consumption, packaging and fashion clothing. Both products are meant to communicate the subject/object it wraps and in both cases the cultural identity and nationality of the content is evident from the surface lay out.
By using materials from different parts of the world, cultural differences and similarities are illustrated graphically. The commercial packaging design, normally a means of conveying product information and complacent advertising slogans, forms a pattern of human civilization.
Exhibition design
Annette Meyer
Hanging system for suitss
Nynke van Vliet
Music composition
Toru Yamanaka
Video - NY & Text
Camilla Hjort
Video - Rotterdam,
editing NY & Rotterdam
Romeo Alaeff
Video - Tokyo & editing
Shiro Takatanii
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