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  Mechanical Couture – Fashioning a New Order
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  October 14, 2010 – January 01, 2011
  of mechanical luxury – designers are reinterpreting couture as a hybrid of both mechanized process and customized craftsmanship. Designers who employ machines and technology neither for their streamlining abilities nor for their capacity to take advantage of mass production. Instead these designers look to machines to realize completely new forms and products. As opposed to simply incorporating technological components into wearable pieces, these designers either create new machines in order to realize their vision, they are inspired by machines as concepts, they turn to the machine as collaborator or surrogate in the design process, or the machine becomes part of the actual work.
  The Wind / Dai Fujiwara + Issey Miyake
  The visit of the British artists took place thanks to the support of the BI ARTS program, the cultural exchange program of the British Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Culture and Sports. * The visit of the Dutch artists took place thanks to the support of the Mondrian Foundation, Amsterdam.
  Dai Fujiwara (Creative Director for ISSEY MIYAKE) | Marloes ten Bhomer | Cedric Flazinski | Shelley Fox | Ying Gao | Patrick Killoran | Kobakant | Despina Papadopoulos | Alyce Santoro | Simon Thorogood | Galya Rosenfeld | Dana Farber | Yael Taragan