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April 18, 2005
Hussein Chalayan: 10 years work
by Kenny Campbell

From 17 April to 4 September, the Groningen Museum will display the first large-scale solo exhibition of the work of the British based Turkish Cypriot fashion designer Hussein Chalayan. In the past ten years Hussein Chalayan has created more than twenty collections of which the most important will be shown in the form of outfits, installations, photographic work, and video work.
Chalayan belongs to the most innovative, experimental and conceptual fashion designers of the present day. With inspiration coming from various and assorted disciplines such as architecture, philosophy and anthropology, his oeuvre can be located at the interface between fashion and art.

Hussein Chalayan, Geotropics
Summer / Spring 1999
Photo: Chris Moore

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