Body Con: Fashion as Sculpture

Today's boldest fashion designers' sculptural looks owe as much to art as fashion, a thread connecting the iconic silhouettes of Cristóbal Balenciaga to the technical mastery of Iris van Herpen.

Fashioning the silhouette to its most exaggerated form, progressive designers are transforming the human figure and challenging sartorial norms to abstract clothing away from the body. This phenomenon blurs the boundaries between art, performance, and self-expression to transcend the celebrity arenas...