Hussein Chalayan

A Life Story Told Through Folds, Tucks and Trims

source: New York Times

 United States - Suzy Menkes, Suzy Menkes “Hussein Chalayan — From Fashion and Back” at London's Design Museum is the first exhibition of the designer's work in his adopted country, although this show is based on a presentation at a museum in Groningen, the Netherlands, in 2005. ...

Published Sun, Apr 26

“Salone del Mobile” Fair in Milan

source: Glass on Web

 Italy The presentation of these objects will be illustrated through the graphic project by the Åbäke collective, following the exhibition devoted to Hussein Chalayan at the Design Museum in London, who will have the task of identifying the space devoted to ...

Published Wed, Apr 15

What is the BBC Head of Sport, Mihir Bose, Doing in a Music ...

source: All About Jazz

 PA Composer/Pianist Lola Perrin was asked to create a music performance from the work of designer/artist and Puma Creative Director, Hussein Chalayan, who is currently on exhibition at the Design Museum. She devised a concept to integrate the issues of ...

Published Sun, Apr 5

Fashion days out for Easter Bank Holiday in the UK

source: Catwalk Queen

 UK Easter Bank Holiday is nearly upon us and if you want to get a dose of fashion and costume history we've compiled a list of some of our favourite exhibitions that you can visit over the weekend. The Hussein Chalayan exhibition at the Design Museum is ...

Published Fri, Apr 3

Nina Due is new Design Museum head of exhibitions

source: Design Week

 UK She says that this could be achieved through holding events outside the Design Museum space, as with the Hussein Chalayan talk held at Shoreditch Town Hall last month. Due also describes her task as ‘looking at the museum holistically’, to make strands ...

Published Thu, Apr 2

Quirky approaches to designing exhibition catalogues

source: Design Week

 UK Graphic design group Åbäke produced an accompanying booklet to the Design Museum's Hussein Chalayan exhibition, reflecting the designer's ideas in subtle ways. Conceived as a notebook-style collection of footnotes to the exhibition, with extra titbits ...

Published Thu, Mar 26

London needs to speak every language

source: This is London

 UK Likewise everyone on the panel, including designer and artist Hussein Chalayan, Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic, architect Farshid Moussavi and playwright Bola Agbaje, were all at least bilingual. Language puritanism is not cool and not clever. ...

Published Thu, Mar 19

Ganz natürlich oder unnatürlich

source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

 Germany Hussein Chalayan habe wieder einmal mit Plastik experimentiert. Aber dieses Mal bleibt der größte Materialienspieler brav: keine Motoren, keine Acrylschlachten, einfach nur Traditionsstoffe. Wieder einmal nimmt Chalayan, der in London am Central ...

Published Mon, Mar 16