The City of lace and fashion of Calais invited the French designer – and his fashion house – to expose its iconic reflective clothing items and to show the public his creative process.
This first French exhibition on Anne Hash will retrace its first thirteen years of creation. True reference in the world of fashion, the French designer is best known for his deconstruction of the masculine wardrobe, intended as women’s fashion, and more broadly for the way it combines the contrary, whether in terms of color, genres, materials or eras. His knowledge and passion of lace will also be highlighted, with the key to many pieces made with this noble reflective material.
A thematic
If it is a retrospective, the course he will not follow a timeline. The exhibition will evolve chromatically, from black to light, split into four themes (Divert function, Unbalancing symmetries, Move tuxedo, and Outsmart light).
From the beginning of the course, the audience will be immersed in the light of a workshop atmosphere, where it discovered a dozen canvases – a garment prototype in three dimensions – laid on dressmaker dummies. Rarely seen, these working papers will include everyone to discover indications of adjustments made by the designer.
The rest of the course will allow everyone to experience the style Anne Hash, which is said every year, the first piece, a dress made from a man’s trousers at the last, a suit tailor lace and reflective fabric.
In total, one hundred models – clothing pieces, videos and unpublished documents – its mark on visitors’ progress. If some pieces were on loan, most of them are from the personal archives of the house Anne Valerie Hash.