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In Conversation: Hussein Chalayan

Future Archaeology

Close up of sequin fabric

Hussein Chalayan, Map Reading (detail), 2001. Photograph by Ellen Sampson.

Celebrating the opening of Dirty Looks, join us for a discussion between designer Hussein Chalayan and curator Karen Van Godtsenhoven.

Hussein Chalayan’s pioneering oeuvre anchors the exhibition’s narrative about the ruin and regeneration in fashion. His buried garments – a practice which began in his Central Saint Martins graduation collection The Tangent Flows (1993) and evolved through later collections – are potent expressions of fashion’s life cycles, representing what he considers a form of ‘future archaeology’ 

Save £15 when you purchase a ticket for Dirty Looks alongside a ticket for In Conversation: Hussein Chalayan

Frobisher Auditorium 1