www.designboom.com: At Seoul’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), a vast, column-free volume becomes a stage for the OMA-designed exhibition, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams. Led by Shohei Shigematsu, this latest iteration of Dior’s traveling retrospective breaks from the format of boxed gallery rooms to orbit around a central void inspired by Korean hanok courtyard logic. Here, structure is narrative, and fashion becomes spatial.
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I know that there are only so many ways to display garments, but the only thing different in this display from the MET’s Sleeping Beauties Reawakened is the galaxy room. Everything leading up to it feels rather lackluster. Maybe its the spacing or theming, but all of the dresses feel like they'rethey're being smothered by their environment. It appears as though the space was designed and constructed, and they pulled outfits to fill the gaps rather than design a space to accentuate fill the gaps rather than use the architecture to enhance and honor the garments. It feels like a different exhibit was supposed to go there and they had to put dresses on identically posed mannequins before someone found out. It all just feels so lifeless. This would have been a great exhibit if they took out the dresses and made it an immersive set and vmd experience but alas this was designed with Dior clothing as the focal point and it fell short. Truly unfortunate as some of those garments are amazing but you wouldn’t know that because they get lost in the sea of other dresses. Maybe I’m being too much of a hater but if the outfits in the outfit exhibit aren’t influencing the room design then what are you doing.
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