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Fashion/Style
Viktor & Rolf

When

18 June 2008 – 14 Sep 2008

Mondays (11am–8pm)

Tuesdays–Wednesdays (11am–6pm)

Thursdays (11am–10pm)

Fridays–Sundays (11am–8pm)

Where
Barbican (Silk Street, EC2, 020.7638.8891) Tube: Barbican
Price
£8
Details
http://barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=7272
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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.

Lucy Davies