
The results of those speculations are wildly different. It’s purely speculative no one really has any idea what we’ll be wearing in the future.” “I was interested in working with designers who weren’t thought of as making ‘futuristic’ fashion,” Ms. Hadid, and others because they were invested in an innovative aspect of fashion design. Stoppard said that some of the designers had been selected because of their connections to Ms. Schumacher and Maison Mais Non that began some months before her death. The exhibition evolved out of talks among Ms. I was curious to see what the designers would imagine.” Few of us have expectations that our clothing will protect us, help us with daily routines, medicate us or act as digital forums. “What have you always wished your clothing could do? What demands and expectations will we have of our clothing in the future? I think, at the moment, we think of our clothes in an aesthetic way, as projecting what we want to say about ourselves. “There was quite a simple brief for the designers,” said Lou Stoppard, the curator of the exhibition, which also had guidance from the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. Hadid’s partner at Zaha Hadid Architects Peter Do Phoebe English Iris van Herpen Stephen Jones Krystyna Kozhoma Nasir Mazhar Minimaforms and XO - consider how fashion and design are affected by new technologies and collaborations. In “The Extraordinary Process,” nine designers - Patrik Schumacher, Ms. Hadid’s interdisciplinary, experimental approach to design opened near the catwalks and designer presentations, at Maison Mais Non, a gallery in Soho. Hadid said in a 2015 interview.Īs Fashion Week started in London on Friday, an exhibition inspired by Ms. “In terms of form, all our projects - architecture, fashion and furniture - interest me equally,” Ms. While her architectural practice become famous for large-scale, soaring structures, like the opera house in Guangzhou, China, or the Maxxi museum in Rome, it has embraced fashion, jewelry design and household items with a similar fervor and spirit of innovation. The architect Zaha Hadid, who died unexpectedly in March, was known for her flamboyant and very personal fashion sense.
