Mode Museum "Couture in Colour" - (Exhibition Review)

As a person who loves fashion naturally I also enjoy to do thing which are fashion related such as shop, blog etc. But I also like to learn about fashion, its history and as a persons who spent a larger proportion of their childhood in war museums and churches (much to my displeasure) it was nice to finally find something which I would actually enjoy and learn something from.

In the Belgian city of Antwerp there is the Mode Museum. It is situated close to the cities heart on the Nationalestraat and also has the benefit of being close to the cities busy shopping areas to help attract the fashion obsessed public such as myself.

The exhibition currently being shown is "Couture in Colour" which features various silks and prints from the Abraham Archives. It is about the company which supplied many fashion houses with their textiles

The exhibition currently being shown is "Couture in Colour" which features various silks and prints from the Abraham Archives. It is about the  swiss company which supplied many fashion houses, such as Dior, Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga with their fabrics.

The company closed in 2002 however left behind and extensive and impressive archive.

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The exhibition was informative and very interesting, everywhere explanations were written in Dutch, French and English so it can be enjoyed by many people regardless to a certain extent of the language that they speak.
My favourite part was with out a doubt where they had a small room which was completely dark but had five dress makers dummies in white clothes with different cuts jackets and dresses. The room was made so dark because each of the dummies had a projector aimed at it and the projector cast different images on the dummies as if they were the fabrics and prints so that the white clothes look as if they were in different colours etc. A very clever idea which I very much enjoyed.
However because of how good I found the exhibition to be I also found it disappointing to find that the exhibition was only on one floor and rather short. Personally I would have enjoyed it to be longer.

The building of the museum also houses a library in which it has 15,000 books, including 50 magazine subscriptions as well as a reading room for the use of designers, students and visitors.
The architecture of museum, in my opinion, is very suited to its use as it is contemporary and rather fashionable with large open spaces and plenty of natural light.

The the current exhibition will be shown until and including Sunday the 11th of August

-Emma xox