Fashion & Interiors traces the charged relationship between clothing and designed space across more than a century, examining how gender shaped both the embellishment of Victorian interiors and the conceptual ambitions of twentieth-century fashion houses.
About This Book
The entanglement of fashion and interior design is more historically deep and ideologically loaded than its surface glamour suggests. This catalogue moves from Victorian domesticity — where women's bodies and their draped, frilled surroundings became near-indistinguishable — through the Gesamtkunstwerk ambitions of Henry van de Velde and Josef Hoffmann, to the branded interior worlds of Paul Poiret and Jeanne Lanvin. It also traces how modernist architects including Adolf Loos, Lilly Reich, and Le Corbusier engaged with dress as a spatial and cultural question. The through-line reaches contemporary designers Ann Demeulemeester, Martin Margiela, and Raf Simons, making this a rigorous, gendered history of two disciplines in ongoing conversation.
Key Features
- 224 pages of catalogue scholarship spanning Victorian interiors through contemporary fashion design
- Text contributions by Romy Cockx (MoMu), Robin Schuldenfrei (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Lara Steinhäußer (MAK), and other subject specialists
- Case studies include Henry van de Velde, Josef Hoffmann, Paul Poiret, Jeanne Lanvin, Adolf Loos, Lilly Reich, Le Corbusier, Ann Demeulemeester, Martin Margiela, and Raf Simons
- Published by Hannibal
What You'll Discover
- How Victorian women's dress and domestic interiors operated as a single visual and social system, with the body at risk of disappearing into its surroundings
- The way male designers of the Arts and Crafts and Wiener Werkstätte movements used women's clothing as an element of total design — and what that control implied
- How fashion houses such as Poiret and Lanvin deployed interior design as an instrument of brand identity long before the concept had a name
- The persistence of this exchange into contemporary fashion, where designers like Margiela and Simons continue to conceptualise clothing through the logic of interior space
About the Author
Romy Cockx is a contributor based at MoMu (the Fashion Museum of Antwerp). The volume also draws on scholarship from Robin Schuldenfrei of The Courtauld Institute of Art and Lara Steinhäußer of the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna), alongside additional subject specialists.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 224
- Dimensions: 20.5 x 27.5 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789464941937
- Publisher: Hannibal
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Fashion historians, interior design researchers, and anyone working across the boundaries of dress, domesticity, and spatial design — from Victorian material culture through to contemporary fashion theory.