Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture

The National Art Center, Tokyo presents "Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture," the exhibition presenting recent trends in fashion and architecture.
Until fairly recently, the two disciplines were not seen as having many points of contact, but from the 1980s onward the distance separating them narrowed and they began to exert a significant influence on each other.
Notably, in recent years, the use of computer-aided design and other technological developments -- in both materials and methods of fabrication-- have given exponents of both disciplines greater freedom in creating complex shapes, and have wrought profound changes in the relationship between surface and structure. Fashion designers have come to create intricate, architectural garments using two-dimensional textiles, while architects are generating more complex curved forms that reveal the influence of fashion design.
The exhibition will consist of 230 works by some 40 outstanding fashion designers and architects from 21 countries, including Japan, where leading-edge work is being produced in both disciplines.

Lecture

"Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture"

Brooke Hodge
(Curator of the Exhibition, Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)
Saturday, June 9, 14:00-16:00
The National Art Center, Tokyo, Auditorium
FREE with the Exhibition ticket
No reservation required

Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture is organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
The exhibition is made possible by a generous grant from Carol and Jacqueline Appel. Endowment support is provided by The Ron Burkle Endowment for Architecture and Design Programs and the Sydney Irmas Exhibition Endowment. Additional support is also provided by Infiniti; The MOCA Architecture & Design Council; Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam; Etant donnes: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art; Dwell; Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown; Westfall Commercial Furniture, Inc.; The Japan Foundation; the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Los Angeles.. Generous in-kind support is provided by Patina-V.
The Presentation of Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture in Japan is realized in cooperation with the Japan Airlines.