Titanic & Fashion
This unique exhibition and catalogue focused on a revolutionary but underexposed period in fashion: 1908 to 1918. Corsets were cast off and bright colours replaced the soft powder tones of the Belle Époque. These are the years of rebellious innovators Paul Poiret, Coco Chanel and Lucile, the idiosyncratic British fashion designer who survived the Titanic disaster. A time of limitless confidence in technological progress, when women were fighting for the right to vote. Feminist ideas were expressed in modern, practical clothing, in a society in which class difference and exclusion was also shaped by fashion. Because the Titanic period has surprising similarities with our world today: an unbridled confidence in technology, liberation movements, class inequality and waves of migration. A time filled with threats of war, in which we are dancing on the edge of the volcano.
Client: Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Materials: Book, Exhibition
Curator: Madelief Hohé
Art-direction: Maarten Spruyt
Publisher: Waanders Publishers
Year: 2025
