
DressUndress
To conceal or to reveal?
Revealing the (naked) body is again permissible. That has been amply proven by recent fashion weeks: naked dresses, miniskirts and crop tops are all the rage. Some celebrities, nevertheless, favour outfits that cover them from head to toe. What are your own beauty ideals? How do you reflect your norms and values in your outfit? And above all: what influences you in that choice?
For centuries fashion has been alternating between concealing and revealing. What is acceptable in fashion today was unacceptable yesterday and vice versa. In the one era a glimpse of a bare ankle is shocking, but in another it is a naked back… What triggers this ebb and flow? How have designers past and present responded to it? In the exhibition DressUndress Hasselt Fashion Museum searches for answers to these fascinating questions.
A quick glance at fashion history reveals that this tension between concealing and revealing is influenced by time-specific values and norms. An era’s prevailing ideas about gender, physicality, beauty, sexuality, modesty and decency are therefore reflected in its fashion. How? By either concealing the body – or parts of it – or by emphasising and highlighting it.
Publication
The exhibition features an exclusive publication, in both a Dutch and an English version. This is not a classic catalogue but a richly illustrated magazine alternating articles by international researchers and journalists with interviews by designers, musicians and fashion actors. The result is a richly varied image of the wonderful world of activewear.

Agenda
Aperitiefrondleiding door DressUndress
Begeleide uitstap of rondleiding - Sun 5 Jun 2022 11:00 - several dates

Q&A: Debat tussen Murielle Scherre en Aya Noël
Lezing of congres - Sat 19 Nov 2022 14:30

Expo DressUndress. Vanwaar die fascinatie voor naakt in fashion?
Tentoonstelling - Sat 26 Feb 2022 to Sun 20 Nov 2022

Creëer je eigen kledinglijn op 1 dag
Cursus met open sessies - Fri 1 Jul 2022 09:00

Schatten van Vlieg in Modemuseum Hasselt
Spel of quiz - Fri 1 Jul 2022 to Wed 31 Aug 2022
