Present Tense according to Jil Sander
The city of Frankfurt dedicates an important solo exhibition to the great German fashion designer who left her mark in the history of fashion and accessories
The Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt is hosting the ‘Jil Sander: Present Tense’ exhibition from now to the 6th of May 2018. The presentation offers an authentic journey inside the unique style of the great German designer, one of the most influential of her generation, by using large-scale multimedia installations, photographs, clothes and objects to express her unique aesthetic approach and the relationship between form and matter. The extraordinarily eclectic exhibition showcases in its entirety the ingenuity and creative power of a designer whose main purpose has always been to bring out a person’s individual personality.
To appropriately enhance the character of a style developed during a truly enviable career, the Italian mannequin maker Bonaveri, one of the partners of the event, created a made to measure series of man and woman busts following the instructions by Jil Sander in terms of materials, finishes and compositions. The two brands are connected by a long-standing collaboration that started in 1991 when Jil Sander asked Bonaveri to create headless mannequins for her stores, an innovation that later became commonly used in fashion retail. In choosing to exhibit her work in Frankfurt, Sander focused her attention on the past, a new and intriguing experience for someone like her who has always preferred to look to the future. After an 18-month design process in which the designer was actively involved, the extraordinary exhibition that combines in dynamic compositions architecture, colours, lights, videos, sounds, texts, photographs, fashion and art has now come to life. Curated by Matthias Wagner K in close collaboration with Jil Sander, the exhibition is divided into thematic sections: runway, backstage, studio, fashion lines, accessories, cosmetics, fashion photography and advertising campaigns, fashion and art, architecture and art garden art. It spreads on about 3,000 square meters of exhibition space