Fashion Statements at Amsterdam Museum

The clothes we wear reveal something about our personality. Fashion expresses our identity, what we find important or what we stand for. In this exhibition, six leading contemporary designers juxtapose and contrast their creations with our historical collection of fashion from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is a dialogue between past and present; an exchange of statements.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, prevailing fashion was a handy way to know who you had in front of you. Were you wearing black? Then you were probably rich or in mourning. Was your hoop skirt enormously wide? Then you had enough money to make it wide - and in the meantime, your slim waist came out fine. Didn't have that slim waist? Then there was the shaping corset in which you were constricted, pregnant or not, to fit into the silhouette of the moment.

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