Past Intelligence

Givenchy. Uli Richter. Students.

Ausgangspunkt der Ausstellung ist ein Kleid von Hubert de Givenchy in der Interpretation von Uli Richter von 1989. Studierende der Macromedia Hochschule, Atelier Chardon Savard haben sich mit dem Kleid und dessen Schnitt auseinandergesetzt.

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  Uli Richter, Zyklamfarbenes Abendkleid, nach einem Schnitt von Givenchy, Pannesamt, Seide, ca. 1989

• Die Kuratorin Katrin Lindemann bei der Analyse des Abendkleides gemeinsam mit den Studierenden der Macromedia Hochschule, 2023

• Hubert der Givenchy, Kopie der Entwurfszeichnung als Beilage zum Schnitt. Aus dem Nachlass von Uli Richter

• Yasemin Akgül, Analoge Fotografie, Rakîb & Atîd: Gleichheit und Rebellion in der Givenchy-Kreation, Model: Anna Doehring

• Franka Dehmel, Analoge Fotografie, ein maßgeschneidertes Kleid aus regionalem und nachhaltigen Leder, Model: Louisa Beck

• Marie-Louise Müller, Pinkfarbenes, kurzes Kleid, Model: Emilia Hartman

• Franka Dehmel, AI-Artwork generiert in NewArc AI

• Wilma Danielsson Liljestrand, AI-Artwork generiert in NewArc AI

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What inspiration can aspiring fashion designers draw from past fashions? In workshops, students at Atelier Chardon Savard, Macromedia University Berlin, addressed this question, drawing on a dress by Hubert de Givenchy from 1986 and its 1989 interpretation by Uli Richter. After studying the two designers along with the dress, its pattern and material, they created their own outfits inspired by their findings. The results can now be viewed in a special exhibition at the Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts.
Twenty textile designs by young students in their 2nd to 5th semesters at Atelier Chardon Savard, Macromedia University Berlin, are on display at the Kunstgewerbemuseum fashion gallery. The presentation is centred around the paper pattern from the 1986 fall/winter collection of the Givenchy haute couture house. The focused presentation makes it possible to trace in detail the sometimes direct, sometimes indirect paths of inspiration between student works and the first interpretation by Uli Richter in 1989.
In addition, 3rd to 5th semester bachelor’s degree students of fashion design and fashion illustration have worked intensively to implement this topic virtually. In the Kunstgewerbemuseum’s fashion studio, they are presenting AI-generated artworks created with the New Arc AI app that reinterpret and visualise historical designs. Exciting cross-references can be discovered between the finished model and analogue and digital photography, as demonstrated, for example, by student Franka Dehmal with her textile, analogue and digital designs.
A Workshop Is Being Planned
In conjunction with the exhibition, planning is ongoing for the workshop I’m Sewing My Own Givenchy Dress, in which participants have the opportunity to replicate the Givenchy dress according to the original pattern. Fashion design students Atelier Chardon Savard will supervise the workshop.
The Curators
The exhibition is curated by Katrin Lindemann, curator for fashion, textiles and jewellery at the Kunstgewerbemuseum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, together with Karolin Violante, professor of fashion design at Atelier Chardon Savard Berlin, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences.

A special exhibition of the Kunstgewerbemuseum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in collaboration with Atelier Chardon Savard of Macromedia University Berlin.

Runtime: Fri, 02/02/2024 to Sun, 26/05/2024

Price info: Kunstgewerbemuseum. Kulturforum

Price: €10.00

Reduced price: €5.00

Takes place here:

• Kulturforum - Kunstgewerbemuseum

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