Group Show
Lara lancaster, Rashad Al-Karooni, Arnaud Pfeffer,
Tobie Giddio, Petra Lunenberg and Frédéric Forest
In this exhibition, we proposed a renewed paradigm for fashion illustration. At the core of fashion
illustration is fashion and its design. When done right, fashion transcends its practical function
to become a canvas, crafting pieces that carry weight in their abstraction.
Illustration of fashion is not only a decorative interpretation of garments. In the group show,
Constructive Reasoning, we deconstruct this and re-code garments through drawing.
The paradigm being built in this exhibition is that fashion illustration can focus on gesture,
silhouette, tension, and material logic to show the concept, the “idea of the look” and stripping
away the non-essential.
The artists presented here are not copying the runway. Instead, they distil and reshuffle its
essence through their own perspectives. Just as fashion styling can transform a garment into a
new idea, illustration becomes a parallel interpretation. The garment becomes raw material for
thought.
Something extremely small - a square, a line, a belt, a fold - can reorganise everything
around it. Not just decorative, but regenerative.
Curated by Thea Monteiro