Exhibition Research - 'Britain Creates 2012: Fashion and Art Collusion'

 Recently I have been looking at examples of past fashion history exhibitions and I came across 'Britain Creates 2012: Fashion and Art Collusion' during my research.

'Britain Creates 2012: Fashion and Art Collusion' was a fashion and design project by the British Fashion Council in preparation 2012 Olympic Games as part of the Olympic Games' culture program. 

A selection of artists and designers from around the world were invited to pair up with British artists and designers to create iconic pieces that would combine their unique skills and interests. Each piece was unveiled at a VIP gala fundraiser before going on display at the V&A. The money raised from the gala formed part of a bursary to encourage and support emerging artists and designers and to help encourage future collaborations.

As this project has many similarities to FOH (the celebration of the project's local area, the overall aim to support emerging artists and designers), I thought this would be a useful project to research.

The pairings of the designers with artists make this exhibition an in-between post of fine art and fashion design. Some pieces more obviously hint towards design and some lean more towards fine art. The final pieces are exhibited as fine art, there are no garments on show, only prints, animation and structures.



The pieces were then displayed in Selfridge's windows as part of the store's 'Wonder Windows' program during July and August of 2012.




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