Revealing Dress: Fashion as Portraiture, a major new exhibition at Liverpool Powerhouse, explores fashion not just as style, but as story.
The exhibition also brings together more than 20 leading and emerging artists and designers to show how what we wear expresses who we are, revealing not our skin, but our inner lives.
Through every choice, whether deliberate or instinctive, clothing exposes our personal truths, cultural histories and emotional landscapes.
From runway garments fresh off Australian Fashion Week to new commissions by Australia’s most exciting designers and artists, the exhibition traces how what we wear reflects who we are and what we stand for.
Highlights include:
- Fashion designers Grace Lillian Lee, fresh from Paris Couture Fashion Week, Alix Higgins, Jordan Gogos and Nicol & Ford
- A playful, immersive Kids & Families Gallery, featuring “emotional cloaks” that invite all ages to explore feeling through costume, sound and play
- Additional new commissions by Benjamin Akuila, Lily Golightly, Megan Hanson, Patrick McDavitt and Jacquie Meng
- Key themes spanning heritage, surveillance, identity, and emotional transformation.
Runway garments from Australian Fashion Week with serious wow-factor will be another highlight, no doubt.
Revealing Dress: Fashion as Portraiture is going to be open to the public until April 19 next year, but it’s worth checking out at some stage during summer.