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Dress

Couture Line Viktor & Rolf Dutch
Designer Viktor Horsting Dutch
Designer Rolf Snoeren Dutch
fall/winter 2015–16
Not on view
Is fashion art, or is art fashion? That was the question Viktor & Rolf posed with their autumn/winter 2015–16 couture collection. Staged as a performance piece, the runway show featured a series of garments composed of painterly “canvases” affixed to hinged frames wrapped in fabric that suggests the appearance of gilt wood. Several designs were appliquéd with jacquard-woven images of Baroque and Rococo paintings from the Rijksmuseum’s in Amsterdam, including this dress adorned with fragmented portraits and embroidered and appliquéd “paint splatters.” As the presentation progressed, Viktor & Rolf removed select ensembles from the models and hung them like paintings on a wall. Since their debut in 1993, the designers have emphasized the consonance between art and fashion; with this collection they asserted that the boundary between the two remains fluid.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dress
  • Couture Line: Viktor & Rolf (Dutch, founded 1993)
  • Designer: Viktor Horsting (Dutch, born 1969)
  • Designer: Rolf Snoeren (Dutch, born 1969)
  • Date: fall/winter 2015–16
  • Culture: Dutch
  • Medium: synthetic, cotton, wood
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2015
  • Object Number: 2015.632
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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