Barbican
Silk Street
EC2
020.7638.8891
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Viktor & Rolf
- When
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18 June 2008 – 14 Sep 2008
Mondays (11am–8pm)
Tuesdays–Wednesdays (11am–6pm)
Thursdays (11am–10pm)
Fridays–Sundays (11am–8pm)
- Where
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Tube: Barbican
- Price
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£8
- Links
Note: A themed weekly party takes place in conjunction with the exhibition on Thursday nights until 10pm.
About as far-removed from traditional fashion houses as possible, Dutch duo Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have a surreal sense of design. Their collections are quirky (think 3-D motifs, from violins to mushroom clouds); their muses unusual (Tilda Swinton is their red-carpet ambassador); and as for their catwalk shows, their models have paraded down runways in silver-plated dresses with antlers sprouting from their heads, attached to their own lighting rigs and accompanied by live performances from Tori Amos and Rufus Wainwright. All this should make for a colourful retrospective, featuring weird and wonderful items from past collections and a specially commissioned installation.
