I went to the Hussein Chalayan show at the Design Museum last week, as part of a repetore of five arts related openings for the BBC's saturday review show. It helped ameliorate the rage of watching Tom Cruise cast as a Nazi in Valkyrie (great story, shame about the casting, script and direction) . My fellow panellists agreed that the Chalayan show was a blast of fresh air from the future. Indeed it was a futuristic show.
Chalayan says his influences are migration, that sort of thing, not making beautiful frocks for averagely endowed women. He's really an installation/performance artist. Yet once you have gawped at the dress with lasers, you can't help but notice that he also produces lovely wearable clothes.
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Hussein Chalayan at the Design Museum
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Er, Linda, you are missing a W! (ww. should be www. your Hussein Chalayan Design Museum link doesn't work as a result). Looks lovely, as indeed do his designs for real people. Will look forward to reading more about him.
Also will be given Valkyrie a pass, as Cruise seems dreadfully miscast as an aristocratic German officer (not a Nazi) plotting against Hitler. Remember how jarring the casting of John Cusack, a far better actor, was as Max Rothman in the film "Max", about the nasty Austrian fellow before he came to power.
Fixed.
I can't give Cruise a pass on Valkyrie, since the casting was his idea.
A silly Valkyrie story:
In the mid 60s, my mom & other American Army officer's wives were invited to lunch with Stauffenberg's widow, who was very nice & showed them around the castles and told them about her husband.
On the way home one of the ladies said: Why, he was better looking than David Niven!
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