Fashion is not art

  Monday evening groundbreaking at RMIT Antwerp Six designer Walter Van Beirendonck and Tate Modern director Chris Dercon, two cooks in the creative industries fashion in the world of fashion head to the retrospective Beirendonck Dream deepened waking world.

In an interview with RMIT Associate Professor Robyn Healy, Dercon Beirendonck performed and provided a fascinating insight into the fashion industry, which is often obscured by the claims of bias unoriginality, mercantilism - and recently, standards for the working poor.

With a refreshing often forced to a community, to market trends, instead of taking succumb promote creativity, the two men agreed on one thing: fashion is not art.

"Fashion is not art, fashion can use art and use art to fashion, but fashion is not art, Dercon said.," I think fashion is one of the most important expressions of industrial design.

Beirendonck agreed. This does not mean that fashion is not art, but the difference between art and industrial design is a function, and in this sense, fashion is one of the functional design elements that we have.

Dreaming Awake the world RMIT Design Hub This is the first time outside Europe Beirendonck exposed. The designer has built a unique international career spanning three decades and is at the forefront of fashion at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He has worked with artists such as Orlan, legendary photographer Nick Knight and Juergen Teller mode, plastic Erwin Wurm and Australian designer Marc Newson has worked artists.

Beirendonck is well known for the trend when it comes to fashion and always advises his students not to imitate or tribute to someone. His work combines technology, sexuality, pop culture and contemporary art. It also draws on ethnography and social issues.

It is a big step forward for RMIT to stage the exhibition, but necessary if the University to receive its position as the favorite design education in Australia. Possible through the support of philanthropic Naomi Milgrom, a business leader and advocate for the arts, the exhibition marks the opening of the RMIT design hub and hope Milgrom, is to "strengthen the stature of the global design RMIT.

Associate Professor of RMIT Robyn Healy, School Clothing and Textiles, said the exhibition "offers remarkable opportunities for RMIT students and research, as well as for anyone interested in design see closely the work of Van Beirendonck to engage adventure in his mind, experience and work methods and reflect on their ideas. "