Created to accompany the MoMu Gallery’s exhibition Dreamsuits, photographer and filmmaker Alice Hawkins lends her unique eye to Cohn’s equally unique couture creations, capturing their glittering surfaces on a fashion film for SHOWstudio.com Drawing outfits from the personal collection of iconic Belgian entertainer Bobbejaan Schoepen and his wife Josée, and featuring Bobbejaan’s country-and-western music as soundtrack, Hawkin’s film is inspired by the idea of Cohn’s work crossing the line between costume and art. For Museum of Costume Hawkins brings Schoepen’s collection to life on a selection of Nudie Cohn enthusiasts – from Elvis impersonators to musicians, club entrepreneurs and even the photographer herself – immortalising the Rodeo tailor’s greatest hits.

On the occasion of the exhibition ‘Dreamsuits’ in the MoMu Gallery, photographer Alex Salinas produced a shooting with Nudie Cohn outfits from the Bobbejaan Schoepen collection featuring Belgian musicians and published in Weekend Knack magazine.

Photography: Alex Salinas
Styling: R. Cerimagic
Make-up: Inge Grognard
Stylist assistant: Aline Walther
Photo assistants: Jef Jacobs & Koen Verminnen
Production: Anita Boels at King Kong VZW
Thanks to Lee Jeans

Dreamsuits from the Bobbejaan Schoepen Collection. Photography: Alex Salinas.

MoMu presents Dreamsuits. Designs by Nudie Cohn, the Rodeo Tailor – featuring the collection of Bobbejaan Schoepen’ in the MoMu Gallery, an exhibition of fascinating outfits, accessories and ephemera by the legendary Nudie Cohn.

Drawn from the personal collection of iconic Belgian entertainer Bobbejaan Schoepen and his wife Josée, this show (curated by fashion historian Mari MacKenzie and designer R. Cerimagic) will be the first European exhibition to examine the work of the Ukrainian born tailor who revolutionized the clothing of Country & Western music.

Dreamsuits. Designs by Nudie Cohn, the Rodeo Tailor
- feat. the collection of Bobbejaan Schoepen
from October 28, 2011 until February 2nd, 2012
MoMu Gallery, free entrance

© 2011 Bobbejaan Records

W&LT Winter 1997/1998 from Walter Van Beirendonck on Vimeo.

On the occasion of the exhibition Dream the world awake, MoMu Library has digitalized all the available videos from the collection of Walter Van Beirendonck over the past three decades. As the exhibition advances, each week two new videos will be posted on the video page of the exhibition’s website and on the MoMu Blog!

The next two videos that are online:

W.&L.T. A/W1997-98 – Avatar
(See video on top of this post)
January 1997 at the Espace W.&L.T. at St. Denis, Paris, France
Setting: A simultaneous show on 3 parallel catwalks. behind a transparent gaze, the models could be seen moving from catwalk through catwalk. Each entrance had light journals with different slogans flashing by.
Styling: American Avatar: 40 models, strong but boyish, with transparent blindfolds like young superheroes. African Avatar: 40 models looking like W.&L.T. Warriors, with metal headframes and ‘projected’ war make-up. Asian Avatar: 40 girls introducing the first W.&L.T. Women’s collection, inspired by Ladybugs. All eyes were veiled with transparent gaze with applied sparkling sequins. 120 hats by Stephen Jones crowned this collection.

W&LT Winter 1995/1996 from Walter Van Beirendonck on Vimeo.

W.&L.T. S/S1997 – A FETISH FOR BEAUTY
July 1997 at the Espace W.&L.T. at St Denis, Paris, France
Setting: A red square of 17 by 17 metres, surrounded by stands for the audience. Four moods and light shows (straight white, white showers, white diffused and coloured starlite mirrorballs) were created for each part of the show.
Styling: 30 Wizzkids performed a line-dance, showing a brandnew Boyswear collection, the newly developed W.&L.T. monster-sneakers and funny ‘variation-on-cowboy hats’ by Stephen Jones.
30 Black Beauties dressed in black with accents of green, orange and pink, with Marilyn Manson-style make-up and posing with Godzilla grace.
White Trash: 30 models on high stilts (50cm.) walked with alien grace across the red square. Long white silhouettes with red and pink lighting accents.
Make-up: white transparent gaze masks and gloved catsuits with Swarovski rhinestones. The girls wore maxi red hair-hats by Stephen Jones, that made this ‘prototype for the future’ even more perfect.
Birds from Outer Space: 40 ballroom dancers, including 20 girls in dazzling evening dresses and classy hairdos, green-red masks and green rubber reptile gloves. 20 boys in black overalls with shiny numbers on their backs and rubber masks, performed techno-latino dances. They were joined by Walter and the entire backstage crew for a big party on the catwalk.

http://vimeo.com/27011258

On the occasion of the exhibition Dream the world awake, MoMu Library has digitalized all the available videos from the collection of Walter Van Beirendonck over the past three decades. As the exhibition advances, each week two new videos will be posted on the video page of the exhibition’s website and on the MoMu Blog!

To celebrate the exhibition, Antwerp icon and biscuit maker Philip’s Biscuits has created a special Walter’s Biscuit, a cookie in the shape of Walter’s head in two versions: a white beard (with sugar) and a brown beard (with chocolate marzipan). Available at the MoMu entrance desk for €5 (two Walter’s Biscuits).

Celebrating the talent of fashion maverick Walter Van Beirendonck, in May 2011 Nick Knight from SHOWstudio and stylist Simon Foxton immortalised the finest pieces from his archive in photography and fashion film, which is showcased in the Walter Van Beirendonck – Dream The World Awake exhibition in the MoMu and also included as a retrospective editorial in A/W2011 GQ Style.

The result is a monolithic photographic frieze of 64 metres in the exhibition alongside a unique fashion film created during the shoot, showcasing fourty-one outfits plucked by Simon Foxton and Van Beirendonck himself from his thirty-years of work and play.

‘Walter’s Wild Knights’ installation. A video collaboration between Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio, Simon Foxton and Walter Van Beirendonck, using archive shoot images. Photography: Boy Kortekaas.

The legendary Parisian restaurant and club/mezzanine L’Alcazar is hosting a party for Walter Van Beirendonck on the occasion of his retrospective exhibition in the MoMu. Performance with videos and live models and music by Maxime Iko (Cockorico/La Vie En Rose).

Walter Van Beirendonck Party
September 22nd at 8pm
Alcazar, 62, rue Mazarine, 75006 Paris

Video impression of the Walter Van Beirendonck: Dream The World Awake vernissage

http://vimeo.com/29262930

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Press&PR
Walter is editor-in-chief of De Standaard!

Tying in with the exhibition, Walter Van Beirendonck is editor-in-chief of the Belgian newspaper De Standaard for their edition of September 16th.

Over the past few years, De Standaard has built a real tradition by inviting prominent Belgian in the arts to guest-edit the newspaper: artist Luc Tuymans in 2007, Jan Fabre in 2008 and photographer Carl De Keyzer in 2009.

It was an exiting project and De Standaard took the challenge to let someone who is primarily concerned with the visual aspects of a product take charge of the news. The culture section became the “main” section, and the news section is the insert, all the multipage articles are printed on non-facing pages, and Walter’s icons and slogans appear liberally throughout the pages!

Also check-out De Standaard of 17/09 with a free ticket for the Walter Van Beirendonck – Dream The World Awake exhibition!

Crinoline in the form of a cloud with appliquè tulle leaves, trousers and shoes in manmade raffia, result of the collaboration between Walter Van Beirendonck and the Austrian artist Erwin Wurm. Photograps by Ronald Stoops.

MoMu is proud to present the exhibition Walter Van Beirendonck: Dream The World Awake, opening today! Over the last three decades, Walter Van Beirendonck has built an impressive international career. As the maverick of Antwerp fashion, he is famed for his colourful collections, his completely unique perception of beauty, his spectacular fashion shows and the socially critical themes touched on in his designs.